blocaille
\blɔ.kaj\
The verdict
“blocaille” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matériau formé de débris de briques et de moellons, de petites pierres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blocaille · blocaille · French
blocaille · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | blocaille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔ.kaj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
blocaille is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɔ.kaj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Matériau formé de débris de briques et de moellons, de petites pierres.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for blocaille in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 blocaille, spelled B-L-O-C-A-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Matériau formé de débris de briques et de moellons, de petites pierres.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how blocaille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Venons aux digues en blocaille. […] Les digues en blocaille usitées sur la Durance & dans autres rivières de la ci-devant Provence, ne sont autre chose qu’un simple mur, plus ou moins épais, construit sur le gravier, dont le parement a très-peu de retraite & dont la base est défendue par une berme.
Synonyms
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.