pil
\ˈpiːl\
The verdict
“pil” is uncommon French (frequency #50,416 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,416
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Revers (de médaille, de pièce).
Corpus desk
Index FR-pil · pil · French
pil · rank #50,416 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,416
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH photon
Nearest frequency peer: photon (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pil »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- peul
peul
49,588 corpus weight
- Philémon
Philémon
49,587 corpus weight
- photon
photon
49,586 corpus weight
- pil
pil
49,585 corpus weight
- pincé
pincé
49,584 corpus weight
- pirouettes
pirouettes
49,583 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pil » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpiːl\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #50,416 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pil » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pil is uncommon French at frequency #50,416 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpiːl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Revers (de médaille, de pièce).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pil in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pil, spelled P-I-L.
Definition
- 1Revers (de médaille, de pièce).
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.
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