bleu de travail
\blø d(ə) tʁa.vaj\
The verdict
“bleu de travail” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Survêtement pour protéger les vêtements lors d’un travail manuel salissant, souvent de couleur bleu foncé, généralement en coton ou en polycoton, rarement en tissus synthétique.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleu de travail |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blø d(ə) tʁa.vaj\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bleu de travail” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bleu de travail is 15 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blø d(ə) tʁa.vaj\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Survêtement pour protéger les vêtements lors d’un travail manuel salissant, souvent de couleur bleu foncé, généralement en coton ou en polycoton, rarement en tissus synthétique.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for bleu de travail in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bleu de travail, spelled B-L-E-U- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L.
Definition
- 1Survêtement pour protéger les vêtements lors d’un travail manuel salissant, souvent de couleur bleu foncé, généralement en coton ou en polycoton, rarement en tissus synthétique.
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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.
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- The one correct French spelling is B-L-E-U- -D-E- -T-R-A-V-A-I-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.