Español homophones
blu/blue
"blue" (#6,626 written frequency) beats "blu" (#20,908) in this 2-word /ˈblu/ cluster. Size rank #33 of 387 Spanish groups.
Data vintage
Frequency splits the cluster
These 2 spellings keep the same /ˈblu/ reading, but written frequency splits them hard: "blue" leads at #6,626, with "blu" trailing at #20,908.
Spelling pairs in this cluster
- Shared stem "blu" then splits - "blu" (3 letters) vs "blue" (4).
Orthographic DNA of this cluster
Shared letters across blu, blue: blu. Private letters are the ones only one spelling owns: the eye's fastest tell once sound is out of the picture.
blu
3 letters · 1 vowels · shape CCV
Inventory blu · no private letters vs siblings
blue
4 letters · 2 vowels · shape CCVV
Inventory belu · private e
Pick the spelling from the meaning
- Write "blu" when you mean: Azul.
- Write "blue" when you mean: Azul.
Known mistypes of these spellings
Edit-distance variants recorded against this cluster: useful when a search or OCR feed lands on the wrong form.
- blue ← bblue · bleu · bllue · bule · lbue · vlue