bluegrass
\blu.ɡʁas\
The verdict
“bluegrass” is uncommon French (frequency #73,770 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,770
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Style musical d'origine américaine qui constitue une branche de la musique country.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluegrass · bluegrass · French
bluegrass · rank #73,770 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,770
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blavet
Nearest frequency peer: blavet (-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 « bluegrass »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blache
blache
26,235 corpus weight
- blades
blades
26,234 corpus weight
- blasphémer
blasphémer
26,233 corpus weight
- blavet
blavet
26,232 corpus weight
- bluegrass
bluegrass
26,231 corpus weight
- bobin
bobin
26,230 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluegrass » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluegrass |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blu.ɡʁas\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,770 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluegrass » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluegrass is uncommon French at frequency #73,770 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blu.ɡʁas\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Style musical d'origine américaine qui constitue une branche de la musique country.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bluegrass, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bluegrass, spelled B-L-U-E-G-R-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1Style musical d'origine américaine qui constitue une branche de la musique country.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bluegrass appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils se feront funky ou plus pop dans la rumba, nostalgiques dans le bluegrass, intimes dans le folk, plus swing avec les violons et les cuivres en avant, bluesy sur un rythme cubain et plus free à la fin.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).