azul
\a.ˈθul\
The verdict
“azul” is uncommon French (frequency #55,759 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,759
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bleu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-azul · azul · French
azul · rank #55,759 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,759
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH avertissent
Nearest frequency peer: avertissent (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « azul »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aunis
Aunis
44,245 corpus weight
- available
available
44,244 corpus weight
- avertissent
avertissent
44,243 corpus weight
- azul
azul
44,242 corpus weight
- aérodynamiq…
aérodynamiques
44,241 corpus weight
- babioles
babioles
44,240 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « azul » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azul |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ˈθul\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #55,759 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « azul » en français
Rare enough to double-check
azul is uncommon French at frequency #55,759 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ˈθul\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bleu.".
azul doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is azul, spelled A-Z-U-L.
Definition
- 1Bleu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how azul appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
El mar es azul.
Hay un suave murmullo En el silencio de una noche azul.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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