vouer au bleu

/\vwe o blø\/ verb

Letters

13 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

vouer au bleu is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur. Pronounced \vwe o blø\.

Key facts for vouer au bleu
PropertyValue
Headwordvouer au bleu
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\vwe o blø\
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

vouer au bleu is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for vouer au bleu is 13 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \vwe o blø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.".

No misspelling variants are generated for vouer au 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 vouer au bleu, spelled V-O-U-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

  1. 1
    Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "vouer au bleu"?
"vouer au bleu" is spelled V-O-U-E-R- -A-U- -B-L-E-U. The IPA pronunciation is \vwe o blø\.
What does "vouer au bleu" mean?
As a verb, "vouer au bleu" means: Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.
How do you pronounce "vouer au bleu"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "vouer au bleu" is \vwe o blø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "vouer au bleu" come from?
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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.