blueberry
\ˈblu.ˌbɛɹ.i\
The verdict
“blueberry” is uncommon French (frequency #64,972 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,972
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bleuet (airelle bleue, Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus).
Corpus desk
Index FR-blueberry · blueberry · French
blueberry · rank #64,972 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,972
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bleutée
Nearest frequency peer: bleutée (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « blueberry »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bitter
bitter
35,033 corpus weight
- Blandin
Blandin
35,032 corpus weight
- bleutée
bleutée
35,030 corpus weight
- blueberry
blueberry
35,029 corpus weight
- BNC
BNC
35,028 corpus weight
- bocquet
bocquet
35,027 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blueberry » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blueberry |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈblu.ˌbɛɹ.i\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blueberry » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blueberry is uncommon French at frequency #64,972 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈblu.ˌbɛɹ.i\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
blueberry doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. 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 blueberry, spelled B-L-U-E-B-E-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1Bleuet (airelle bleue, Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus).
- 2Bleuet (arbrisseau portant ces baies, Vaccinium sect. Cyanococcus).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blueberry appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I found my thrill On Blueberry Hill
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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