glycérol
\ɡli.se.ʁɔl\
The verdict
“glycérol” is uncommon French (frequency #83,912 among 2,617 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,912
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide incolore, transparent, facilement soluble dans l’alcool, d’une saveur sucrée et d’une consistance sirupeuse, qui est le produit de la saponification des graisses.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glycerol · glycérol · French
glycérol · rank #83,912 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,912
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glucide
Nearest frequency peer: glucide (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « glycérol »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- glucide
glucide
16,090 corpus weight
- glycérol
glycérol
16,089 corpus weight
- glyphe
glyphe
16,088 corpus weight
- gores
gores
16,087 corpus weight
- gour
gour
16,086 corpus weight
- graminée
graminée
16,085 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « glycérol » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glycérol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.se.ʁɔl\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #83,912 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « glycérol » en français
Rare enough to double-check
glycérol is uncommon French at frequency #83,912 among 2,617 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɡli.se.ʁɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Liquide incolore, transparent, facilement soluble dans l’alcool, d’une saveur sucrée et d’une consistance sirupeuse, qui est le produit de la saponification des graisses.".
glycérol has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is glycérol, spelled G-L-Y-C-É-R-O-L.
Definition
- 1Liquide incolore, transparent, facilement soluble dans l’alcool, d’une saveur sucrée et d’une consistance sirupeuse, qui est le produit de la saponification des graisses.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how glycérol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lors de la production de biodiesel, ou éther de méthyl, du glycérol est obtenu lors du raffinage de l’huile de colza après saponification et méthylation.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).