bluebird
\ˈbluː.bɝd\
The verdict
“bluebird” is uncommon French (frequency #93,535 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,535
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Merlebleu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluebird · bluebird · French
bluebird · rank #93,535 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,535
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Bianconeri
Nearest frequency peer: Bianconeri (-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 « bluebird »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bhopal
Bhopal
6,469 corpus weight
- BHP
BHP
6,468 corpus weight
- Bianconeri
Bianconeri
6,467 corpus weight
- bluebird
bluebird
6,466 corpus weight
- bluesman
bluesman
6,465 corpus weight
- Bojan
Bojan
6,464 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluebird » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluebird |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈbluː.bɝd\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,535 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluebird » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluebird is uncommon French at frequency #93,535 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈbluː.bɝd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Merlebleu.".
Zero misspellings are on record for bluebird in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is bluebird, spelled B-L-U-E-B-I-R-D.
Definition
- 1Merlebleu.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).