blocus
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#11,182
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
15
similar word pairs
blocus is aFrenchnoun. It means: Siège d’une ville, d’un port, d’une position, d’un pays pour lui couper toute communication avec l’extérieur. Pronounced \blɔ.kys\. Often confused with bonus and blogs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | blocus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔ.kys\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #11,182 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for blocus is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɔ.kys\. Corpus data places it at rank #11,182 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for blocus, with forms such as "bblocus", "blcous", and "bllocus". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "bonus", "blogs", "Blois", 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 blocus, spelled B-L-O-C-U-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Siège d’une ville, d’un port, d’une position, d’un pays pour lui couper toute communication avec l’extérieur.
- 2Embargo.
- 3Encerclement.
- 4Blocage, action de bloquer.
- 5Action d’empêcher, pour des raisons politiques, l’accès à un établissement, notamment un lycée ou une université.
- 6Période sans cours dans l’enseignement supérieur et l’enseignement universitaire qui permet aux étudiants de préparer leurs examens.
- 7Embarras de circulation, embouteillage.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bblocus,blcous,bllocus,bloccus,blocsu,blocuss,bloucs,bolcus,lbocus
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Misspelling Variants of "blocus"
Frequency rank: #11,182 in French
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