block out
[ˈblok ˈawt̪]
The verdict
“block out” is outside the top-ranked Spanish vocabulary, used as a phrase - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency Spanish
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Situación que se da cuando el jugador que bloquea un remate desvía la pelota hacia fuera del campo de juego, concediendo un punto al equipo rival.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | block out |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [ˈblok ˈawt̪] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “block out” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for block out is 9 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈblok ˈawt̪]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Situación que se da cuando el jugador que bloquea un remate desvía la pelota hacia fuera del campo de juego, concediendo un punto al equipo rival.".
No misspelling variants are generated for block out in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is block out, spelled B-L-O-C-K- -O-U-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Situación que se da cuando el jugador que bloquea un remate desvía la pelota hacia fuera del campo de juego, concediendo un punto al equipo rival.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “block out”
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- The one correct Spanish spelling is B-L-O-C-K- -O-U-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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