bloc-notes
\blok.nɔt\
The verdict
“bloc-notes” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble de feuilles accrochées d'un côté, faciles à détacher et qui sert à écrire des notes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bloc-notes · bloc-notes · French
bloc-notes · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloc-notes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blok.nɔt\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bloc-notes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bloc-notes is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \blok.nɔt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bloc-notes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is bloc-notes, spelled B-L-O-C---N-O-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Ensemble de feuilles accrochées d'un côté, faciles à détacher et qui sert à écrire des notes.
- 2Rubrique d'un journal ou d'un magazine dans lesquels il est écrit une suite d'échos et de réflexions personnelles.
- 3Site sur la toile, souvent personnel, qui présente en ordre chronologique de courts articles ou notes, généralement accompagnés de liens vers d'autres sites.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bloc-notes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si nous pouvions relever ici nos communications transmises sur de petites feuilles blanches de bloc-notes, on serait étonné de la fréquence de nos relations.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.