bévue
French, noun/be.vy/
bévue is spelled B-É-V-U-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 50,716th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bévue is a French feminine noun meaning “blunder, gaffe” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Erreur commise par ignorance ou par inadvertance”.
What does bévue mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineblunder, gaffe
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Erreur commise par ignorance ou par inadvertance.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bévue
- bévues plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bévue?
- /be.vy/
- \be.vy\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bévue
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bévue in French?
bévue appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).