bien vu l’aveugle
\bjɛ̃ vy l‿a.vœɡl\
The verdict
“bien vu l’aveugle” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Se dit pour se moquer d’une personne qui n’a pas remarqué une chose, bien qu’elle soit évidente.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bien vu l’aveugle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | \bjɛ̃ vy l‿a.vœɡl\ |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bien vu l’aveugle” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bien vu l’aveugle is 17 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \bjɛ̃ vy l‿a.vœɡl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for bien vu l’aveugle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bien vu l’aveugle, spelled B-I-E-N- -V-U- -L-’-A-V-E-U-G-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Se dit pour se moquer d’une personne qui n’a pas remarqué une chose, bien qu’elle soit évidente.
- 2Se dit pour se moquer d’une grosse erreur d’appréciation.
This word in other languages
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- The one correct French spelling is B-I-E-N- -V-U- -L-’-A-V-E-U-G-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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