bloquiste
\blɔ.kist\
The verdict
“bloquiste” is uncommon French (frequency #69,624 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,624
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre ou partisan du Bloc québécois.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bloquiste · bloquiste · French
bloquiste · rank #69,624 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,624
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH biomécanique
Nearest frequency peer: biomécanique (-3 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 « bloquiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Bergeret
Bergeret
30,382 corpus weight
- Berthet
Berthet
30,381 corpus weight
- biomécanique
biomécanique
30,380 corpus weight
- bloquiste
bloquiste
30,377 corpus weight
- Boltanski
Boltanski
30,373 corpus weight
- bombardant
bombardant
30,372 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bloquiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bloquiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \blɔ.kist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,624 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bloquiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bloquiste is uncommon French at frequency #69,624 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \blɔ.kist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bloquiste has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is bloquiste, spelled B-L-O-Q-U-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Membre ou partisan du Bloc québécois.
- 2Député du Bloc québécois.
- 3Membre ou partisan d’un autre parti appelé Bloc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bloquiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est cette image qui permet aux bloquistes d'aller chercher des appuis au-delà des rangs souverainistes.
Candidat libéral dans Louis-Saint-Laurent, à Québec, M. Fragasso s'était alors incliné devant le bloquiste Bernard Cleary.
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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