blush
\blœʃ\
The verdict
“blush” is uncommon French (frequency #53,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,810
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fard à joues pour rougir une partie du visage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blush · blush · French
blush · rank #53,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,810
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bleuté
Nearest frequency peer: bleuté (-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 « blush »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- blanchot
blanchot
46,193 corpus weight
- bleuté
bleuté
46,192 corpus weight
- blush
blush
46,191 corpus weight
- boléro
boléro
46,190 corpus weight
- bonobo
bonobo
46,189 corpus weight
- boobs
boobs
46,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blush » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blush |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blœʃ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blush » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blush is uncommon French at frequency #53,810 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blœʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for blush in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 blush, spelled B-L-U-S-H.
Definition
- 1Fard à joues pour rougir une partie du visage.
- 2Hypervascularisation visible à l’angiographie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blush appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais si vous êtes une inconditionnelle de la « bonne mine », préférez les blushes liquides qui s’utilisent sous le fond de teint et donnent une impression de transparence colorée.
Appliquer le blush d’abord sur les pommettes pour les faire saillir, ensuite sur le menton pour équilibrer l’ensemble du visage.
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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