blau
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,871
in German word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
blau is anGermanadj. It means: eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum eine relativ kurzwellige Farbe zwischen grün und violett; Grundfarbe vieler Farbmodelle, insbesondere eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums Pronounced [blaʊ̯]. It ranks #1,871 in German word frequency. Often confused with bu and blu.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blau |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | [blaʊ̯] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for blau is 4 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [blaʊ̯]. Corpus data places it at rank #1,871 in overall German word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for blau, with forms such as "balu", "bblau", and "bllau". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bu", "blu", "boa", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 German form is blau, spelled B-L-A-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1eine bunte Farbe, im Spektrum eine relativ kurzwellige Farbe zwischen grün und violett; Grundfarbe vieler Farbmodelle, insbesondere eine der drei Grundfarben des digitalen RGB-Farbraums
- 2betrunken
- 3zyanotisch, bläuliche Färbung der Haut, wenn sie mit zu wenig sauerstoffreichem Blut versorgt wird
- 4indekliniertes Adjektiv, nur attributiv dem Substantiv nachgestellt: Zubereitungsart von Fisch
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: balu,bblau,bllau,blua,lbau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for blau
Misspelling Variants of "blau"
Frequency rank: #1,871 in German
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Nearby German words
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