bloquer

/\blɔ.ke\/ verb

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.

Key facts for bloquer
PropertyValue
Headwordbloquer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\blɔ.ke\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,833
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of bloquer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus.
  2. 2
    Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
  3. 3
    Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
  4. 4
    Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser.
  5. 5
    Aux jeu de billes, tout miser.
  6. 6
    Réunir en bloc.
  7. 7
    Garnir 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.
  8. 8
    Mettre 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"

bbloquer8blloquer8bloqeur7bloqquer8bloquerr8bloqure7blouqer7blqouer7
Misspelling Variants of "bloquer"

Frequency rank: #4,833 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bloquer"?
"bloquer" is spelled B-L-O-Q-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \blɔ.ke\.
What does "bloquer" mean?
As a verb, "bloquer" means: Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus.
What words are commonly confused with "bloquer"?
"bloquer" is commonly confused with "braquer", "bloques", "bloquez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "bloquer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "bloquer" is \blɔ.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "bloquer" come from?
"bloquer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.