bloc

/\blɔk\/ noun

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Letters

4 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,609

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

bloc is aFrenchnoun. It means: Masse, gros morceau d’une matière pesante et dure, telle que la pierre, le marbre, le fer non encore travaillés. Pronounced \blɔk\. It ranks #2,609 in French word frequency. Often confused with bon and bob.

Key facts for bloc
PropertyValue
Headwordbloc
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\blɔk\
Letters4
Frequency rank#2,609
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bloc in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for bloc is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɔk\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,609 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 25 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for bloc, with forms such as "bbloc", "blco", and "blloc". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "bon", "bob", "box", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 French form is bloc, spelled B-L-O-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masse, gros morceau d’une matière pesante et dure, telle que la pierre, le marbre, le fer non encore travaillés.
  2. 2
    Bloc erratique
  3. 3
    Masse de pierre qui a été taillée avant d’être transportée à pied d’œuvre pour une construction.
  4. 4
    Pâté de maisons ou de constructions diverses situé entre des rues perpendiculaires.
  5. 5
    Parpaing
  6. 6
    Style d'escalade pratiqué sur des rochers ou murs de faible hauteur.
  7. 7
    Billot de bois.
  8. 8
    Billot de plomb sur lequel les graveurs posent et arrêtent les ouvrages qu’ils veulent graver.
  9. 9
    Masse de bois d’où le raffineur détachait la forme du pain de sucre.
  10. 10
    Plusieurs feuillets de papier de même format légèrement collés ensemble sur un seul côté, de manière que l’on puisse les détacher facilement un à un pour prendre des notes ou écrire des lettres. → voir bloc-note.
  11. 11
    Amas, assemblage de diverses choses, et principalement de plusieurs marchandises.
  12. 12
    séquence d'information
  13. 13
    séquence d'information
  14. 14
    séquence d'information
  15. 15
    séquence d'information
  16. 16
    séquence d'information
  17. 17
    séquence d'information
  18. 18
    Balises HTML de mise en page verticale d'une séquence (de la largeur de la page) contraire aux balises en-ligne horizontale.
  19. 19
    Union de plusieurs États, de plusieurs partis.
  20. 20
    Union de plusieurs États, de plusieurs partis.
  21. 21
    Prison, pièce dans un commissariat de police où l'on enferme temporairement les délinquants.
  22. 22
    Blockhaus.
  23. 23
    Partie d'une macromolécule comprenant de nombreuses unités constitutives et qui possède au moins une particularité de constitution ou de configuration qui n'apparaît pas dans les parties adjacentes.
  24. 24
    Ensemble de quatre timbres ou plus attenant les uns aux autres, et comprenant au moins quatre timbres disposés en carré.
  25. 25
    Petit feuillet, comportant un seul timbre ou regroupant plusieurs timbres différents.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: bbloc,blco,blloc,blocc,bolc,lboc

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bloc

Misspelling Variants of "bloc"

bbloc5blco4blloc5blocc5bolc4lboc4
Misspelling Variants of "bloc"

Frequency rank: #2,609 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bloc"?
"bloc" is spelled B-L-O-C. The IPA pronunciation is \blɔk\.
What does "bloc" mean?
As a noun, "bloc" means: Masse, gros morceau d’une matière pesante et dure, telle que la pierre, le marbre, le fer non encore travaillés.
What words are commonly confused with "bloc"?
"bloc" is commonly confused with "bon", "bob", "box". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bloc"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bloc" is \blɔk\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bloc" come from?
"bloc" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.