bleu cerise
\blø sə.ʁiz\
The verdict
“bleu cerise” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rouge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bleu-cerise · bleu cerise · French
bleu cerise · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleu cerise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blø sə.ʁiz\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bleu cerise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bleu cerise is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \blø sə.ʁiz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Rouge.".
No misspelling variants are generated for bleu cerise in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bleu cerise, spelled B-L-E-U- -C-E-R-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Rouge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bleu cerise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Chez les chasseurs alpins, où le mot rouge est tabou, on emploie à la place l’expression « bleu cerise ».
— Quelle couleur la moto ? — Bleu cerise, répondit Julien sans hésiter. — Bleu cerise ? Mais ça n’existe pas ! émit Sandrine. Un gendarme la renseigna. — C’est le rouge. Les chasseurs alpins ne prononcent jamais le mot rouge. Ça date de l’époque de Napoléon III qui voulait que les soldats portent le pantalon garance. Rouge si vous préférez. Vous imaginez…
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.