vouer au bleu
\vwe o blø\
The verdict
“vouer 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-vouer-au-bleu · vouer au bleu · French
vouer au bleu · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "V" 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 | vouer au bleu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \vwe o blø\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « vouer au bleu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
vouer au bleu is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \vwe o blø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.".
Zero misspellings are on record for vouer au bleu in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is vouer au bleu, spelled V-O-U-E-R- -A-U- -B-L-E-U.
Definition
- 1Faire vœu que, pendant quelques années, un enfant sera habillé de bleu, en l’honneur de la sainte Vierge, dont c’est la couleur.
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.