Which to use
“glace” is a noun and “glacée” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #1,954
- “glace” frequency rank
- #14,272
- “glacée” frequency rank
- 16226
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | glace | glacée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | ou Eau à l’état solide. | Féminin singulier de glacé. |
Where the eye mixes glace and glacée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 5 letters in sequence.
Why the eye confuses glace with glacée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: glace is \ɡlas\ while glacée is \ɡla.se\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs adjective), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 16226, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
glace is recorded at frequency rank #1,954, classified as anoun, pronounced \ɡlas\. glacée is at rank #14,272, tagged as anadj, pronounced \ɡla.se\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 16226, this pair ranks #388,809 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of glace vs glacée
Shared letters: acegl. Private to "glace": -. Private to "glacée": é.
"glace" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV · "glacée" · 6 letters · shape CCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- glace ← galce · gglace · glacce · glaec · glcae · gllace · lgace
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "glace" and "glacée" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "glace" or "glacée" show up more?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "glace" and "glacée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "glace" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "glacée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #388,809 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "glace" and "glacée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "glacée vs glane". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #388,809 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.