sanglot

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for sanglot is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɑ̃.ɡlo\. Corpus data places it at rank #63,339 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Soupir redoublé, spasme de la poitrine qui, contractée par la douleur, laisse échapper des sons entrecoupés.".

No misspelling variants are generated for sanglot in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is sanglot, spelled S-A-N-G-L-O-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.