bleuet
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#53,163
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
bleuet is aFrenchnoun. It means: Centaurée annuelle dont les inflorescences sont bleues et qui croît dans les blés. Pronounced \blø.ɛ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleuet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blø.ɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #53,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bleuet is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blø.ɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #53,163 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bleuet in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 bleuet, spelled B-L-E-U-E-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Centaurée annuelle dont les inflorescences sont bleues et qui croît dans les blés.
- 2Fruit de l’airelle à feuilles étroites (Vaccinium angustifolium), proche de la myrtille (V. myrtillus). On les retrouve dans tout le bouclier laurentien, notamment dans la région du Lac-Saint-Jean.
- 3Cette plante elle-même.
- 4Martin-pêcheur (d’Europe).
- 5Petit passereau bleu des bois ouverts d’Amérique tropicales, tangara évêque (Thraupis episcopus (Linnaeus, 1766)).
- 6Surnom donné pendant la guerre 14-18 à la classe 1917 qui portaient la tenue bleu-horizon et qui n’avaient pas connu le fameux pantalon rouge.
- 7Surnom donné sous l’Ancien Régime aux pamphlets politiques.
- 8Footballeurs de l’équipe de France Espoirs et par extension des autres sélections nationales de jeunes.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #53,163 in French
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