bleue
\blø\
The verdict
“bleue” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,046
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à l’absinthe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bleue · bleue · French
bleue · rank #4,046 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,046
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blessures
Nearest frequency peer: blessures (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bleue »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- banlieue
banlieue
95,958 corpus weight
- be
be
95,957 corpus weight
- blessures
blessures
95,956 corpus weight
- bleue
bleue
95,955 corpus weight
- bonus
bonus
95,954 corpus weight
- bouffe
bouffe
95,953 corpus weight
What this shows « bleue » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bleue »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around bleue (IPA \blø\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,046 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for bleue, with forms such as "bbleue", "belue", and "bleeu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blu", "bue", "blue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bleue, spelled B-L-E-U-E.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à l’absinthe.
- 2Nom donné à la liqueur de curaçao.
- 3Consommation offerte, en général par le débitant de boisson.
- 4Nom donné à la cigarette Gauloise.
- 5Variétés de poules au plumage bleu, gris ou blanc herminé.
- 6Variété de vaches à la robe bleue.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bleue appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’alcool du café luxueux tue le riche, habitué du « Pernod », comme l’alcool du bistro tue l’ouvrier, habitué de « la bleue ». Les victimes du capitalisme et les victimes de l’alcoolisme ne sont pas nécessairement les mêmes.
Il avait gardé des relations, trouvait de ci, de là ; quelques cachets à faire, en banlieue, un camarade pour lui payer la bleue, chaque soir, au « Café Français », et le crédit pour la croustille, chez nombre de marchands de vins[…]
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbleue
- belue
- bleeu
- blleue
- bluee
- lbeue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bleue - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bleue", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).