piller
"piller" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“piller” is uncommon English (frequency #81,701 among 46,516 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,701
- frequency rank, English
- 46,516
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A plunderer or thief.
Corpus desk
Index EN-piller · piller · English
piller · rank #81,701 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,701
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 46,516
- PHOTO-FINISH physicochemic…
Nearest frequency peer: physicochemical (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “piller”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- phablet
phablet
18,306 corpus weight
- pharos
pharos
18,305 corpus weight
- PHB
PHB
18,304 corpus weight
- physicochem…
physicochemical
18,301 corpus weight
- piller
piller
18,300 corpus weight
- plaits
plaits
18,296 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “piller” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piller |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “piller” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
piller is uncommon English at frequency #81,701 among 46,516 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A plunderer or thief.".
No misspelling variants are generated for piller in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage) The correct English form is piller, spelled P-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1A plunderer or thief.
Etymology
Partly from Anglo-Norman pilour, from Old French piller (“to plunder”) (more at pillage)
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.