azure
\a.zyʁ\
The verdict
“azure” is uncommon French (frequency #59,088 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,088
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Papier légèrement bleuté, par du bleu apporté à la fabrication, pour renforcer la perception de blancheur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azure |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.zyʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,088 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “azure” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
azure is uncommon French at frequency #59,088 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.zyʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Papier légèrement bleuté, par du bleu apporté à la fabrication, pour renforcer la perception de blancheur.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for azure, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is azure, spelled A-Z-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1Papier légèrement bleuté, par du bleu apporté à la fabrication, pour renforcer la perception de blancheur.
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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Using “azure”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-Z-U-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.