sacrebleu
\sa.kʁə.blø\
The verdict
“sacrebleu” is an uncommon French word, ranked #61,874 in French word frequency and used as an interjection.
- #61,874
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Juron familier marquant l’admiration, la colère ou l’étonnement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sacrebleu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \sa.kʁə.blø\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,874 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sacrebleu” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for sacrebleu is 9 letters long, classified as an interjection, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \sa.kʁə.blø\. Corpus data places it at rank #61,874 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Juron familier marquant l’admiration, la colère ou l’étonnement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for sacrebleu, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is sacrebleu, spelled S-A-C-R-E-B-L-E-U.
Definition
- 1Juron familier marquant l’admiration, la colère ou l’étonnement.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is S-A-C-R-E-B-L-E-U - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \sa.kʁə.blø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.