pastille
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#38,967
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
pastille is aFrenchnoun. It 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. Pronounced \pas.tij\. Often confused with pastilles and paille.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pastille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pas.tij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #38,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pastille is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pas.tij\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,967 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for pastille, with forms such as "apstille", "pasitlle", and "passtille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pastille, spelled P-A-S-T-I-L-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petits morceaux de pâte séchée, de différentes formes, utilisée en confiserie et en pharmacie où l'on considère que ce sont des saccharolés solidifiés.
- 2Nom donné parfois improprement à d'autres galéniques.
- 3Petits 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.
- 4Élément décoratif de forme plate.
- 5Zone conductrice d’un circuit imprimé, utilisée entre autres pour la fixation d’un composant.
- 6Petit cylindre de matière fissile destiné à servir de combustible à un réacteur de centrale nucléaire.
- 7Autocollant placé sur un produit pour indiquer une propriété ou une caractéristique particulière.
- 8Sujet court.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apstille,pasitlle,passtille,pastile,pastilel,pastlile,pasttille,patsille,ppastille,psatille
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pastille
Misspelling Variants of "pastille"
Frequency rank: #38,967 in French
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