bu
Letters
2 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,636
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
bu is anFrenchadj. It means: Absorbé, en parlant d’un liquide ou de sentiment (les sentiments étaient autrefois considérés comme des humeurs, au sens propre de quelque chose d’humide). It ranks #5,636 in French word frequency. Often confused with by and BV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #5,636 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bu is 2 letters long, classified as anadj. Corpus data places it at rank #5,636 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for bu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BV", "BX", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is bu, spelled B-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Absorbé, en parlant d’un liquide ou de sentiment (les sentiments étaient autrefois considérés comme des humeurs, au sens propre de quelque chose d’humide).
- 2Ivre.
Frequency rank: #5,636 in French
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