lien bleu
The verdict
“lien bleu” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Hyperlien de couleur bleue. C’est la couleur par défaut de la plupart des navigateurs pour les liens non visités.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lien bleu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljɛ̃ blø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “lien bleu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for lien bleu is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ljɛ̃ blø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for lien bleu in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 lien bleu, spelled L-I-E-N- -B-L-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Hyperlien de couleur bleue. C’est la couleur par défaut de la plupart des navigateurs pour les liens non visités.
- 2Mot ou groupe de mots en hyperlien de couleur bleue, ce qui signifie que le lien renvoie sur une page qui existe.
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Using “lien bleu”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is L-I-E-N- -B-L-E-U — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ljɛ̃ 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
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