monobloc
\mɔ.no.blɔk\
The verdict
“monobloc” is uncommon French (frequency #76,806 among 5,038 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,806
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Groupe des cylindres d’un moteur à explosion, fondus d’un seul bloc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-monobloc · monobloc · French
monobloc · rank #76,806 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,806
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Montbard
Nearest frequency peer: Montbard (+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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « monobloc »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- modifiait
modifiait
23,198 corpus weight
- moissonneus…
moissonneuses
23,197 corpus weight
- monobloc
monobloc
23,195 corpus weight
- Montbard
Montbard
23,194 corpus weight
- morues
morues
23,193 corpus weight
- moti
moti
23,192 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « monobloc » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | monobloc |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ.no.blɔk\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,806 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « monobloc » en français
Rare enough to double-check
monobloc is uncommon French at frequency #76,806 among 5,038 “M” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ.no.blɔk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Groupe des cylindres d’un moteur à explosion, fondus d’un seul bloc.".
Zero misspellings are on record for monobloc in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is monobloc, spelled M-O-N-O-B-L-O-C.
Definition
- 1Groupe des cylindres d’un moteur à explosion, fondus d’un seul bloc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how monobloc appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lui, il s"est agenouillé encore une fois pour observer les dégâts sous le monobloc du moteur.
This word in other languages
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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