buée
\bɥe\
The verdict
“buée” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,782. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,782
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lessive (dans le sens de linge que l’on lave).
Corpus desk
Index FR-buee · buée · French
buée · rank #42,782 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,782
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bâches
Nearest frequency peer: bâches (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « buée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- brouillage
brouillage
57,223 corpus weight
- bucolique
bucolique
57,222 corpus weight
- Burberry
Burberry
57,221 corpus weight
- buée
buée
57,219 corpus weight
- bâches
bâches
57,218 corpus weight
- cancérigènes
cancérigènes
57,217 corpus weight
What this shows « buée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | buée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bɥe\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #42,782 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « buée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around buée (IPA \bɥe\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #42,782 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for buée, with forms such as "bbuée", "buee", and "bueé". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "but", "bus", "bye", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is buée, spelled B-U-É-E.
Definition
- 1Lessive (dans le sens de linge que l’on lave).
- 2Vapeur de la pâte du pain.
- 3Vapeur d’eau condensée en gouttelettes.
- 4Type de grandes cruches ou vases à anses, en terre cuite ou en laiton, entre le XVIIe et le milieu du XVIIIe siècle.
- 5Chose légère, évanescente.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how buée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et affin de vous descouvrir l’industrie de ce bon Escossois, il trouva fasson d’apprendre a blanchir les draps linges,(…). Il demouroit bien souvent, a cause de faire la buee, ung jour et deux jours, es maisons dessus dictes ; et le faisoit on coucher avecques la chambriere et aucunes foiz avecques sa fille.
Cinq ou six grabats se touchant, dans l'unique pièce où les buées d'une lessive répandaient leur tiédeur acide […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbuée
- buee
- bueé
- béue
- ubée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of buée - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).