bue
\by\
The verdict
“bue” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #47,195) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,195
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de bu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bue · bue · French
bue · rank #47,195 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,195
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH Brussel
Nearest frequency peer: Brussel (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « bue »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- bouleaux
bouleaux
52,809 corpus weight
- Breslau
Breslau
52,808 corpus weight
- Brussel
Brussel
52,807 corpus weight
- bue
bue
52,806 corpus weight
- bunkers
bunkers
52,805 corpus weight
- busan
busan
52,804 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « bue » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \by\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,195 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « bue »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bue is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \by\. Frequency #47,195 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de bu.".
bue has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BV", "BX", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bue, spelled B-U-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de bu.
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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