blues
French, noun/bluz/
blues is spelled B-L-U-E-S (5 letters) and appears 10 times per million words in written French, the 6,701st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Blues is a French masculine noun meaning “blues (depression)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Musique vocale et instrumentale, dérivée des chants de travail afro-américains où l’interprète exprime sa…”.
What does blues mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineblues (depression)
- 2
masculineblues (musical genre of African American origin)
- 3
masculineblues (a blues composition)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Musique vocale et instrumentale, dérivée des chants de travail afro-américains où l’interprète exprime sa tristesse. 2. Spleen, tristesse, mélancolie ou dépression psychique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce blues?
- /bluz/
- \bluz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to blues
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is blues in French?
blues appears 10 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).