bloquer
French, verb/blɔ.ke/
bloquer is spelled B-L-O-Q-U-E-R (7 letters) and appears 15 times per million words in written French, the 4,842nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bloquer is a French verb meaning “to block (physically), to barricade, to obstruct” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus”.
What does bloquer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to block (physically), to barricade, to obstruct
Un arbre bloque le passage.
- 2
to jam, to wedge, to fix in place
- 3
to freeze (e.g. prices)
Les agriculteurs souhaitent bloquer le prix de leur blé.
- 4
to defeat
Ils doivent bloquer ses adversaires.
- 5
to block, to impede, to hinder
L’adrénaline peut ralentir ou bloquer le travail.
- 6
to freeze, to lock up
- 7
to become jammed
- 8
to retreat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Fermer par un blocus les avenues d'une place, les approches d'un port, etc, immobiliser par un blocus. 2. Empêcher de bouger, de se déplacer, d'avoir lieu ; arrêter, immobiliser. 3. Serrer complètement. 4. Se coincer.
verb: 1. Étudier, bûcher en période de blocus.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of bloquer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bloquant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bloqué participle past
- bloque first-person indicative present
- bloques indicative present second-person
- bloquons first-person indicative plural
- bloquez indicative plural present
- bloquent indicative plural present
- bloquais first-person imperfect indicative
- bloquait imperfect indicative singular
- bloquions first-person imperfect indicative
- bloquiez imperfect indicative plural
- bloquaient imperfect indicative plural
- bloquai first-person historic indicative
- bloquas historic indicative past
- bloqua historic indicative past
- bloquâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bloquer?
- /blɔ.ke/
- \blɔ.ke\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bloquer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bloquer in French?
bloquer appears 15 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).