beu
\bø\
The verdict
“beu” is uncommon French (frequency #60,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,581
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Cannabis sous forme de fleurs sèches.
Corpus desk
Index FR-beu · beu · French
beu · rank #60,581 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,581
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bibliographies
Nearest frequency peer: bibliographies (+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 « beu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bernardino
Bernardino
39,424 corpus weight
- Berwick
Berwick
39,423 corpus weight
- beu
beu
39,420 corpus weight
- bibliograph…
bibliographies
39,419 corpus weight
- bifurque
bifurque
39,417 corpus weight
- bikinis
bikinis
39,416 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « beu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | beu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bø\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #60,581 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « beu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
beu is uncommon French at frequency #60,581 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Cannabis sous forme de fleurs sèches.".
beu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is beu, spelled B-E-U.
Definition
- 1Cannabis sous forme de fleurs sèches.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how beu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il a acheté de la beu aux Pays-Bas.
This word in other languages
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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