bleu
/blø/
The verdict
“bleu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #33,298) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #33,298
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - azul
Corpus desk
Index PT-bleu · bleu · Portuguese
bleu · rank #33,298 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,298
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH BIOS
Nearest frequency peer: BIOS (-2 rank slots)
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.
Vizinhos de frequência do confusável “bleu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- bells
bells
66,708 corpus weight
- Benin
Benin
66,707 corpus weight
- BIOS
BIOS
66,705 corpus weight
- bleu
bleu
66,703 corpus weight
- bruscamente
bruscamente
66,696 corpus weight
- bule
bule
66,694 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “bleu” face aos lemas portugueses mais próximos por rank, não um reprint da secretária de confusáveis.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bleu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /blø/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #33,298 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “bleu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for bleu is neighbouring look-alikes ("blu", "bué", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /blø/. Frequency #33,298 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "azul".
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for bleu, with forms such as "bbleu", "belu", and "blleu". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "blu", "bué", "blog", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Portuguese form is bleu, spelled B-L-E-U.
Definition
- 1azul
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbleu
- belu
- blleu
- lbeu
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bleu - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 Portuguese corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar Portuguese words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "bleu", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).