blocking
/ˈblɑkɪŋ/noun, verb
blocking is spelled B-L-O-C-K-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blocking means “The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blocking is blockings.
How many letters and syllables are in blocking?
| Letters | 8: B-L-O-C-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is blocking?
Blocking appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,878th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce blocking?
- UK /ˈblɒkɪŋ/
- US /ˈblɑkɪŋ/
Blocking has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-blocking.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with blocking?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as blocking from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of blocking
- blockings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does blocking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
blocking of major opposition sites
- 2
The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
- 3
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
- 4
A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
- 5
A rectangular discontinuity as an artifact of separating a discrete signal into blocks that are processed individually.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of block
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).