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pillbox

/ˈpɪl bɑːks/noun

pillbox is spelled P-I-L-L-B-O-X: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pillbox means “A small box in which pills are kept” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pillbox is pillboxes.

How many letters and syllables are in pillbox?

Letters7: P-I-L-L-B-O-X
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 72,332nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pillbox?

Pillbox appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 72,332nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce pillbox?

  • UK /ˈpɪl bɒks/
  • US /ˈpɪl bɑːks/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Neøn-pillbox.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with pillbox

Also written: pill-box (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of pillbox

  • pillboxes plural
  • pill-box

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pillbox mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A small box in which pills are kept.

  2. 2

    A flat, concrete gun emplacement.

  3. 3

    archaicslangA doctor's carriage.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pillbox in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpilulier (box for pills), bunker (gun emplacement)
GermanPillendose, Pillenschachtel, Pillendöschen, Tablettendose (box for pills), Bunker (gun emplacement)
Spanishpastillero (box for pills), fortín (gun emplacement)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pillbox come from?

From pill + box.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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