heure bleue
^((h muet))\œʁ blø\
The verdict
“heure bleue” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Période de l’aube ou du crépuscule lors de laquelle la lumière du jour est bleu foncé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | heure bleue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | ^((h muet))\œʁ blø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “heure bleue” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
heure bleue is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed ^((h muet))\œʁ blø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Période de l’aube ou du crépuscule lors de laquelle la lumière du jour est bleu foncé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for heure bleue in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 heure bleue, spelled H-E-U-R-E- -B-L-E-U-E.
Definition
- 1Période de l’aube ou du crépuscule lors de laquelle la lumière du jour est bleu foncé.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “heure bleue”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is H-E-U-R-E- -B-L-E-U-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as ^((h muet))\œʁ blø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.