bloquage
\blɔ.kaʒ\
The verdict
“bloquage” is uncommon French (frequency #80,924 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,924
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de blocage.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bloquage · bloquage · French
bloquage · rank #80,924 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,924
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bluffante
Nearest frequency peer: bluffante (+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 « bloquage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- billards
billards
19,081 corpus weight
- bloquage
bloquage
19,077 corpus weight
- bluffante
bluffante
19,076 corpus weight
- Blériot
Blériot
19,075 corpus weight
- Bodart
Bodart
19,074 corpus weight
- bogie
bogie
19,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bloquage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloquage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔ.kaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,924 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bloquage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bloquage is uncommon French at frequency #80,924 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɔ.kaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de blocage.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for bloquage, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is bloquage, spelled B-L-O-Q-U-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de blocage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bloquage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La construction de ce donjon, […], est composée d'un revêtement de pierres irrégulièrement appliquées avec un bloquage de silex et de mortier, qui présente la plus forte résistance […].
Mais dès que ce bloquage aura cessé, les armatures des moteurs seront de nouveau mises en rotation et engendreront des courants qui provoqueront une nouvelle application des freins.
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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