bloquéevsbloquezTell them apart

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

Which to use

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

#11,722
“bloquée” frequency rank
#42,770
“bloquez” frequency rank
54492
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

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

Same sound, different letters: bloquée vs bloquez

Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 6 letters. bloquée (CCVCVVV) and bloquez (CCVCVVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.

7 ch
bloquée
7 ch
bloquez

Homophone desk: bloquée vs bloquez

Say them out loud and nothing separates them: bloquée and bloquez carry the same recorded pronunciation, \blɔ.ke\. Grammar is what tells them apart: one is anadjective, the other averb, so most sentences will only accept one of them. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 54492, 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\. bloquez is at rank #42,770, tagged as averb, pronounced \blɔ.ke\.

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 54492, this pair ranks #133,656 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of bloquée vs bloquez

Shared letters: beloqu. Private to "bloquée": é. Private to "bloquez": z.

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

Known mistypes of this pair

  • bloquez ← bbloquez · blloquez · bloqeuz · bloqquez · bloquezz · bloquze · blouqez · blqouez

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "bloquée" and "bloquez" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "bloquée" is an adjective and "bloquez" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "bloquée" or "bloquez" show up more?
"bloquée" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,722 in our French list, against #42,770 for "bloquez". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

"bloquée" and "bloquez" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.

  • Full dictionary entry for "bloquée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "bloquez" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #133,656 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "bloquée" and "bloquez" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "bloques vs bloquez". 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 #133,656 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