sel de Glauber
\sɛl də ɡlo.bɛʁ\
The verdict
“sel de Glauber” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Sulfate hydraté de sodium, utilisé depuis sa découverte comme laxatif, et dont la forme naturelle est la mirabilite.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sel de Glauber |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \sɛl də ɡlo.bɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sel de Glauber” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sel de Glauber is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sɛl də ɡlo.bɛʁ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Sulfate hydraté de sodium, utilisé depuis sa découverte comme laxatif, et dont la forme naturelle est la mirabilite.".
No misspelling variants are generated for sel de Glauber 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 sel de Glauber, spelled S-E-L- -D-E- -G-L-A-U-B-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sulfate hydraté de sodium, utilisé depuis sa découverte comme laxatif, et dont la forme naturelle est la mirabilite.
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- The one correct French spelling is S-E-L- -D-E- -G-L-A-U-B-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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