bloche
\blɔʃ\
The verdict
“bloche” is uncommon French (frequency #96,682 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,682
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Asticot (pouvant provenir de diverses espèces de mouches).
Corpus desk
Index FR-bloche · bloche · French
bloche · rank #96,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,682
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blasphématoir…
Nearest frequency peer: blasphématoires (-2 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bloche »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bisbille
bisbille
3,324 corpus weight
- bist
bist
3,322 corpus weight
- blasphémato…
blasphématoires
3,321 corpus weight
- bloche
bloche
3,319 corpus weight
- bluette
bluette
3,317 corpus weight
- blâmée
blâmée
3,316 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bloche » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #96,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bloche » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bloche is uncommon French at frequency #96,682 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɔʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Asticot (pouvant provenir de diverses espèces de mouches).".
No misspelling variants are generated for bloche in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is bloche, spelled B-L-O-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Asticot (pouvant provenir de diverses espèces de mouches).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bloche appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Y aura de la menuaille mais pas de tout gros. Ceux qui sont sur le perré pourraient faire du gardon, mais à la graine, pas aux bloches.
T’as vu mes bloches ? dit Beaublaire.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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