blu
/blu/ ouvir^(fonte ?)
The verdict
“blu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,516) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,516
- frequency rank, Portuguese
- 840
- “B” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - azul
Corpus desk
Index PT-blu · blu · Portuguese
blu · rank #15,516 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,516
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 840
- PHOTO-FINISH blanco
Nearest frequency peer: blanco (-1 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 “blu”
Pares de peso semelhante no corpus, aparte dos confusáveis abaixo
- banqueiro
banqueiro
84,487 corpus weight
- blanco
blanco
84,486 corpus weight
- blu
blu
84,485 corpus weight
- brecha
brecha
84,483 corpus weight
- candomblé
candomblé
84,479 corpus weight
- capoeira
capoeira
84,478 corpus weight
What this shows As barras situam “blu” 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 | blu |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /blu/ ouvir^(fonte ?) |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,516 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rank de corpus junto a confusáveis de “blu”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for blu is neighbouring look-alikes ("by", "BR", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced /blu/ ouvir^(fonte ?). Frequency #15,516 among 840 “B” headwords. Gloss: "azul".
Zero misspellings are on record for blu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "by", "BR", "bo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Portuguese form is blu, spelled B-L-U.
Definition
- 1azul
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Portuguese headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).