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blocklist

noun, verb

blocklist is spelled B-L-O-C-K-L-I-S-T: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, blocklist means “A list of websites or other material to be blocked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of blocklist is blocklists.

How many letters and syllables are in blocklist?

Letters9: B-L-O-C-K-L-I-S-T
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is blocklist?

Blocklist appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 blocklist?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-blocklist.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of blocklist

  • blocklists plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • block list
  • blocklisting participle, present
  • blocklisted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does blocklist mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A list of websites or other material to be blocked.

    Every time I get spam in my inbox, I add the sender to my blocklist.

  2. 2

    A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

verb

  1. 1

    To place on a blocklist; to mark a person or entity as one to be blocked

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Blocklist in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense list or set of people or entities to be banned:

LanguageWords
Frenchliste de prohibition
Portugueselista de proibidos
Spanishlista de prohibidos

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does blocklist come from?

Compound of block + list.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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