blockhaus
\blɔ.kos\
The verdict
“blockhaus” is uncommon French (frequency #58,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,458
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Maison construite en troncs d'arbres.
Corpus desk
Index FR-blockhaus · blockhaus · French
blockhaus · rank #58,458 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,458
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blanquette
Nearest frequency peer: blanquette (-1 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 « blockhaus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- birdy
birdy
41,546 corpus weight
- blanchâtres
blanchâtres
41,545 corpus weight
- blanquette
blanquette
41,544 corpus weight
- blockhaus
blockhaus
41,543 corpus weight
- boer
boer
41,542 corpus weight
- bonde
bonde
41,541 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « blockhaus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blockhaus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔ.kos\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,458 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « blockhaus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
blockhaus is uncommon French at frequency #58,458 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɔ.kos\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
blockhaus doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is blockhaus, spelled B-L-O-C-K-H-A-U-S.
Definition
- 1Maison construite en troncs d'arbres.
- 2Redoute, casemate, abri blindé à l’épreuve des tirs ennemis.
- 3Abri blindé destiné à protéger, pendant une attaque, la commande du gouvernail et les ordres de transmission.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how blockhaus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n'est pas à dire pourtant que cette grande famille [d'Amérique] républicaine ne manifeste plus par aucun signe sa diversité d'origine. Le descendant allemand, par exemple, […] préfère encore son blockhaus, simple et rustique comme lui, à l'élégante framehouse de ses voisins.
Entre les quatre murs du blockhaus démantelé, un âne errant, ou une chèvre au piquet, broute le gazon d'Espagne et le chardon bleu.
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); 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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