blockhouse
"blockhouse" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“blockhouse” is uncommon English (frequency #85,046 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,046
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
Corpus desk
Index EN-blockhouse · blockhouse · English
blockhouse · rank #85,046 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,046
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH blights
Nearest frequency peer: blights (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “blockhouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- blackhead
blackhead
14,959 corpus weight
- bleakness
bleakness
14,958 corpus weight
- bleeder
bleeder
14,957 corpus weight
- blights
blights
14,956 corpus weight
- blockhouse
blockhouse
14,955 corpus weight
- boater
boater
14,954 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “blockhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blockhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “blockhouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
blockhouse is uncommon English at frequency #85,046 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for blockhouse in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From block + house. Calque of German Blockhaus. The correct English form is blockhouse, spelled B-L-O-C-K-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A sturdy military fortification, often of concrete, with gunports.
- 2A reinforced building from which to control hazardous operations, such as an explosion or a rocket launch.
- 3A temporary wooden fortification with a projecting upper storey.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blockhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We had soon touched land in the same place as before and set to provision the blockhouse. All three made the first journey, heavily laden, and tossed our stores over the palisade.
Etymology
From block + house. Calque of German Blockhaus.
This word in other languages
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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