bloquer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,833
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
bloquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus. Pronounced \blɔ.ke\. It ranks #4,833 in French word frequency. Often confused with braquer and bloques.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \blɔ.ke\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,833 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for bloquer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \blɔ.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,833 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for bloquer, with forms such as "bbloquer", "blloquer", and "bloqeur". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "braquer", "bloques", "bloquez", 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 bloquer, spelled B-L-O-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus.
- 2Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
- 3Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
- 4Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
- 5Aux jeu de billes, tout miser.
- 6Réunir en bloc.
- 7Garnir d’une maçonnerie de pierres brutes noyées dans du mortier l’entre-deux des parements d’un mur, l’intérieur d’une pile de pont, etc.
- 8Mettre à dessein dans la composition une lettre renversée ou retournée, à la place de celle qui devrait y être, mais qui manque dans la casse.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: bbloquer,blloquer,bloqeur,bloqquer,bloquerr,bloqure,blouqer,blqouer,bolquer,lboquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for bloquer
Misspelling Variants of "bloquer"
Frequency rank: #4,833 in French
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