glycol
\ɡli.kɔl\
The verdict
“glycol” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,112. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,112
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Diol non géminal, souvent vicinal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glycol · glycol · French
glycol · rank #49,112 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #49,112
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glane
Nearest frequency peer: glane (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « glycol »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Geert
Geert
50,892 corpus weight
- Gerson
Gerson
50,891 corpus weight
- glane
glane
50,890 corpus weight
- glycol
glycol
50,889 corpus weight
- golfeurs
golfeurs
50,887 corpus weight
- goélette
goélette
50,886 corpus weight
What this shows « glycol » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glycol |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glycol »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around glycol (IPA \ɡli.kɔl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,112 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for glycol, with forms such as "gglycol", "glcyol", and "gllycol". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "glaçon", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is glycol, spelled G-L-Y-C-O-L.
Definition
- 1Diol non géminal, souvent vicinal.
- 2Composé organique caractérisé par un certain nombre de groupes hydroxyles (→ voir polyol et polyalcool).
- 3Éthylène glycol.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glycol appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les glycols (deux groupements d’OH sur deux atomes de carbone) sont peu toxiques et faiblement irritants. Ils sont utilisés comme (éthylène glycol, méthylglycol, éthylglycol, butylglycol, etc.) solvants, agents antigel, échangeurs de chaleur, plastifiants dans l’industrie pharmaceutique et dans l’industrie des explosifs.
Les polyols dont fait partie le xylitol, regroupe toute une classe molécule. On peut les nommer polyalcools ou glycols.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglycol
- glcyol
- gllycol
- glyccol
- glyclo
- glycoll
- glyocl
- glyycol
- gylcol
- lgycol
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glycol - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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