bluette
\bly.ɛt\
The verdict
“bluette” is uncommon French (frequency #96,684 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,684
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faible étincelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bluette · bluette · French
bluette · rank #96,684 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,684
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blâmée
Nearest frequency peer: blâmée (+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 « bluette »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blasphémato…
blasphématoires
3,321 corpus weight
- bloche
bloche
3,319 corpus weight
- bluette
bluette
3,317 corpus weight
- blâmée
blâmée
3,316 corpus weight
- bongos
bongos
3,314 corpus weight
- bonite
bonite
3,313 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bluette » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bluette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bly.ɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #96,684 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bluette » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bluette is uncommon French at frequency #96,684 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bly.ɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for bluette, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bluette, spelled B-L-U-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Faible étincelle.
- 2Trait d’esprit plus brillant que juste.
- 3Petit ouvrage ; ouvrage sans prétention ; badinage d’esprit.
- 4Sentiment amoureux sans durée.
- 5Chanson légère qui fait rêver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bluette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est proprement la bluette que vous voyez, pâle et faible, luire, et s'évanouir presque aussitôt, sans produire ordinairement d'autre effet, sans laisser aucune trace sensible d'elle-même, lorsque vous cherchez du feu sous la cendre pour le rallumer; […].
Et le grillon s’était endormi, dès que la dernière bluette avait éteint sa dernière lueur dans la cendre de la cheminée.
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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