bloquéevsbloquesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: bloquée is a adjective, bloques is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“bloquée” is an adjective and “bloques” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,722
“bloquée” frequency rank
#42,191
“bloques” frequency rank
53913
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature bloquée bloques
Definition Féminin singulier de bloqué. Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe bloquer.

Where the eye mixes bloquée and bloques

Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence.

7 ch
bloquée
7 ch
bloques

Look-alike desk: bloquée vs bloques

These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: bloquée is \blɔ.ke\ while bloques is \blɔk\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (adjective vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53913, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

bloquée is recorded at frequency rank #11,722, classified as anadj, pronounced \blɔ.ke\. bloques is at rank #42,191, tagged as averb, pronounced \blɔk\.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 53913, this pair ranks #137,584 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bloquée vs bloques

Shared letters: beloqu. Private to "bloquée": é. Private to "bloques": s.

"bloquée" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVV  ·  "bloques" · 7 letters · shape CCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bloquesbbloques · blloques · bloqeus · bloqques · bloquess · bloquse · blouqes · blqoues

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bloquée" and "bloques" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bloquée" is an adjective and "bloques" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "bloquée" vs "bloques" - which ranks higher?
"bloquée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,722 in our French list, against #42,191 for "bloques". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bloquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bloques" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #137,584 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bloquée" and "bloques" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bloques vs braqués". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #137,584 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list