passer au bleu
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14 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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passer au bleu is aFrenchverb. It means: Tremper du linge blanchi dans une eau imprégnée d’une couleur bleue, pour lui donner de l’éclat ; effectuer un bleutage, un azurage. Pronounced \pa.se.ʁ‿o blø\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | passer au bleu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pa.se.ʁ‿o blø\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for passer au bleu is 14 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pa.se.ʁ‿o 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 frequent misspelling variants are recorded for passer au bleu in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 passer au bleu, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U- -B-L-E-U, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tremper du linge blanchi dans une eau imprégnée d’une couleur bleue, pour lui donner de l’éclat ; effectuer un bleutage, un azurage.
- 2Oublier volontairement, effacer.
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