bloquant
\blɔ.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“bloquant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,870. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,870
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui bloque, empêche un processus de suivre son cours.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bloquant · bloquant · French
bloquant · rank #21,870 · 12 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,870
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH bistrot
Nearest frequency peer: bistrot (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « bloquant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- billetterie
billetterie
78,134 corpus weight
- binôme
binôme
78,133 corpus weight
- bistrot
bistrot
78,132 corpus weight
- bloquant
bloquant
78,131 corpus weight
- BM
BM
78,130 corpus weight
- boot
boot
78,129 corpus weight
What this shows « bloquant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloquant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \blɔ.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,870 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « bloquant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around bloquant (IPA \blɔ.kɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,870 among 4,251 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for bloquant, with forms such as "bbloquant", "blloquant", and "bloqaunt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "bloquent", "bloquait", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 bloquant, spelled B-L-O-Q-U-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui bloque, empêche un processus de suivre son cours.
- 2Qui participe à un blocus maritime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bloquant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il s’agit également d’éviter les conflits ou de faire en sorte que ceux-ci ne soient pas bloquants, voire qu’ils puissent être profitables.
Trop d’idées préconçues, d’opinions toutes faites sur les langues circulent dans le corps social, font écran à une perception plus exacte des réalités et des problèmes, et finissent par former des mythes bloquants qui dénaturent, voire interdisent toute réflexion.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- bbloquant
- blloquant
- bloqaunt
- bloqquant
- bloquannt
- bloquantt
- bloquatn
- bloqunat
- blouqant
- blqouant
- bolquant
- lboquant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bloquant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).