bluesman
\bluz.man\
The verdict
“bluesman” is uncommon French (frequency #93,536 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,536
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Musicien de blues.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluesman · bluesman · French
bluesman · rank #93,536 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,536
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bluebird
Nearest frequency peer: bluebird (-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 « bluesman »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- bolchévisme
bolchévisme
6,463 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluesman » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluesman |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bluz.man\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,536 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluesman » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluesman is uncommon French at frequency #93,536 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bluz.man\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Musicien de blues.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bluesman, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bluesman, spelled B-L-U-E-S-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1Musicien de blues.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bluesman appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ali d’Oro, qu’il interprétera avec John Lee Hooker (le tout dernier enregistrement du bluesman américain avant sa mort).
Prise dans l’ordre descendant, la réunion de ces deux cellules reconstitue, par l’élision du IVᵉ degré, l’un des mélismes les plus familiers aux chanteurs de blues et aux bluesmen de l’époque ancienne.
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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