blu
\ˈblyː\
The verdict
“blu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,100) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,100
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme mutée de plu par adoucissement (p → b).
Corpus desk
Index FR-blu · blu · French
blu · rank #15,100 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,100
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bourgmestre
Nearest frequency peer: bourgmestre (+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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « blu »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- barque
barque
84,904 corpus weight
- battait
battait
84,903 corpus weight
- blu
blu
84,901 corpus weight
- bourgmestre
bourgmestre
84,900 corpus weight
- calvados
calvados
84,899 corpus weight
- cardiaques
cardiaques
84,898 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « blu » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | blu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈblyː\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,100 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « blu »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for blu is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "bu", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈblyː\. Frequency #15,100 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Forme mutée de plu par adoucissement (p → b).".
No misspelling variants are generated for blu in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "bu", "Br", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is blu, spelled B-L-U.
Definition
- 1Forme mutée de plu par adoucissement (p → b).
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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