pastille

\pas.tij\

/\pas.tij\/ noun

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The verdict

“pastille” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,967. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,967
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
8
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petits morceaux de pâte séchée, de différentes formes, utilisée en confiserie et en pharmacie où l'on considère que ce sont des saccharolés solidifiés.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pastille · pastille · French

pastille · rank #38,967 · 10 variants · 8 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,967
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH parures

Nearest frequency peer: parures (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pastille »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pastille » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pastille vs pastilles
89% similar
pastille vs paille
75% similar
pastille vs pareille
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pastille
PropertyValue
Headwordpastille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pas.tij\
Letters8
Frequency rank#38,967
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pastille »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pastillese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « parures » (#38,966), « pathos » (#38,968), « partirait » (#38,965). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pastille » est au #38,967. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pastille (IPA \pas.tij\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,967 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pastille, with forms such as "apstille", "pasitlle", and "passtille". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "pastilles", "paille", "pareille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is pastille, spelled P-A-S-T-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petits morceaux de pâte séchée, de différentes formes, utilisée en confiserie et en pharmacie où l'on considère que ce sont des saccharolés solidifiés.
  2. 2
    Nom donné parfois improprement à d'autres galéniques.
  3. 3
    Petits pains de diverses formes et composés de différentes substances odorantes, dont on se sert ordinairement pour parfumer l’air d’une chambre, en les brûlant.
  4. 4
    Élément décoratif de forme plate.
  5. 5
    Zone conductrice d’un circuit imprimé, utilisée entre autres pour la fixation d’un composant.
  6. 6
    Petit cylindre de matière fissile destiné à servir de combustible à un réacteur de centrale nucléaire.
  7. 7
    Autocollant placé sur un produit pour indiquer une propriété ou une caractéristique particulière.
  8. 8
    Sujet court.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pastille appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Pastilles pectorales.
  2. Il s’agit d’un médicament sous forme de pastilles à sucer, ce qui permet au principe actif d’être diffusé lentement.

This word in other languages

land(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apstille
  • pasitlle
  • passtille
  • pastile
  • pastilel
  • pastlile
  • pasttille
  • patsille
  • ppastille
  • psatille

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pastille - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apstille2pasitlle2passtille1pastile1pastilel2pastlile2pasttille1patsille2
Edit distance from "pastille"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pastille"?
"pastille" is spelled P-A-S-T-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pas.tij\.
What does "pastille" mean?
As a noun, "pastille" means: Petits morceaux de pâte séchée, de différentes formes, utilisée en confiserie et en pharmacie où l'on considère que ce sont des saccharolés solidifiés.
What words are commonly confused with "pastille"?
"pastille" is commonly confused with "pastilles", "paille", "pareille". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pastille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pastille" is \pas.tij\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pastille" come from?
"pastille" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pastille", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Plymouth#38,977olympien#38,952Ollivier#38,951porosité#38,983

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

orbital10 variantspommettes10 variantsobligez10 variantsprémisse10 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list