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azure

UK /ˈæʒə/noun, adjective, verb

azure is spelled A-Z-U-R-E: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, azure means “The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of azure is azures.

How many letters and syllables are in azure?

Letters5: A-Z-U-R-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing2.2 times per million words; the 18,297th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is azure?

Azure appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,297th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce azure?

  • UK /ˈæʒə/
  • UK /ˈæz.jʊə/
  • UK /ˈæʒjʊə/

Azure has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-azure.ogg, En-us-azure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with azure

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

azur vs azure0 B

Also written: azur.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of azure

  • azures plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • az.
  • b.
  • bl.
  • azuring participle, present
  • azured participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does azure mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.

  2. 2

    A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.

  3. 3

    The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.

  4. 4

    Any of various widely distributed lycaenid butterflies of the genus Celastrina.

  5. 5

    Any of various Australasian lycaenid butterflies of the genus Ogyris.

  6. 6

    Lapis lazuli.

adjective

  1. 1

    Sky blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky.

  2. 2

    Cloudless.

  3. 3

    In blazon, of the colour blue.

verb

  1. 1

    To colour blue.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate azure?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of azure: az..

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Azure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchazur (blue colour on a coat of arms), bleu ciel (colour of the sky)
GermanBlau (blue colour on a coat of arms), Himmelblau, Azurblau (colour of the sky), himmelblau, azur (sky-blue coloured), blau (heraldry: of blue colour on a coat of arms)
Portugueseblau, azur, azul (blue colour on a coat of arms), azul celeste (colour of the sky), cerúleo (sky-blue coloured)
Spanishazur, blao (blue colour on a coat of arms), azul celeste (sky-blue coloured)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does azure come from?

From Middle English asure, from Old French azur, derived from Arabic لَازَوَرْد (lāzaward, “lapis lazuli”), dropping the l as if it were equivalent to the French article l'. The Arabic is from Classical Persian لاجورد (lājward, “lapis lazuli”), from the region of Lajward in Badakhshan. Compare with Italian azzurro and Spanish azul.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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