passer au bleu
\pa.se.ʁ‿o blø\
The verdict
“passer au bleu” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tremper du linge blanchi dans une eau imprégnée d’une couleur bleue, pour lui donner de l’éclat ; effectuer un bleutage, un azurage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-passer-au-bleu · passer au bleu · French
passer au bleu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « passer au bleu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
passer au bleu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \pa.se.ʁ‿o blø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for passer au bleu in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is passer au bleu, spelled P-A-S-S-E-R- -A-U- -B-L-E-U.
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.
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.