glyphosate
\ɡli.fo.zat\
The verdict
“glyphosate” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,106. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,106
- frequency rank, French
- 2,617
- “G” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aminophosphonate de formule brute C₃H₈NO₅P, à usage d'herbicide de nombreuses graminées et de nombreuses dicotylédones, annuelles ou vivaces, et qui n'est sélectif d'aucune culture.
Corpus desk
Index FR-glyphosate · glyphosate · French
glyphosate · rank #34,106 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,106
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,617
- PHOTO-FINISH glycémie
Nearest frequency peer: glycémie (-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 « glyphosate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- girouette
girouette
65,898 corpus weight
- gli
gli
65,897 corpus weight
- glycémie
glycémie
65,896 corpus weight
- glyphosate
glyphosate
65,895 corpus weight
- goes
goes
65,894 corpus weight
- graphistes
graphistes
65,893 corpus weight
What this shows « glyphosate » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | glyphosate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɡli.fo.zat\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,106 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « glyphosate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around glyphosate (IPA \ɡli.fo.zat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,106 among 2,617 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Aminophosphonate de formule brute C₃H₈NO₅P, à usage d'herbicide de nombreuses graminées et de nombreuses dicotylédones, annuelles ou vivaces, et qui n'est sélectif d'aucune culture.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for glyphosate, with forms such as "gglyphosate", "gllyphosate", and "glpyhosate". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is glyphosate, spelled G-L-Y-P-H-O-S-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Aminophosphonate de formule brute C₃H₈NO₅P, à usage d'herbicide de nombreuses graminées et de nombreuses dicotylédones, annuelles ou vivaces, et qui n'est sélectif d'aucune culture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how glyphosate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus d’un millier de rats de laboratoire ont été enrôlés pendant deux ans, et soumis à différentes doses de glyphosate – toutes considérées comme sans effets par la réglementation européenne. Dans tous les groupes d’animaux ayant reçu ces petites doses quotidiennes de l’herbicide, écrivent les chercheurs, « nous avons observé une augmentation statistiquem…
Hors des cultures on peut réduire S. halepense plus rapidement par des applications de dalapon, de glyphosate, d'asulam ou de MSMA. Comme l'action de ces herbicides n'est pas spécifique, il faut localiser le plus possible les pulvérisations.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- gglyphosate
- gllyphosate
- glpyhosate
- glyhposate
- glyphhosate
- glyphoaste
- glyphosaet
- glyphosatte
- glyphossate
- glyphostae
- glyphsoate
- glypohsate
- glypphosate
- glyyphosate
- gylphosate
- lgyphosate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of glyphosate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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