pilaf
\pi.laf\
The verdict
“pilaf” is uncommon French (frequency #95,163 among 248,534 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,163
- frequency rank, French
- 248,534
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Riz cuit avec des morceaux de viande, de volaille ou de poisson et très épicé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilaf · pilaf · French
pilaf · rank #95,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,163
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 248,534
- PHOTO-FINISH Pikine
Nearest frequency peer: Pikine (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “pilaf”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- pigeonner
pigeonner
4,840 corpus weight
- Pikine
Pikine
4,839 corpus weight
- pilaf
pilaf
4,838 corpus weight
- Pinar
Pinar
4,837 corpus weight
- plantains
plantains
4,836 corpus weight
- playbook
playbook
4,835 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “pilaf” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilaf |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.laf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pilaf” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pilaf is uncommon French at frequency #95,163 among 248,534 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.laf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Riz cuit avec des morceaux de viande, de volaille ou de poisson et très épicé.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pilaf in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pilaf, spelled P-I-L-A-F.
Definition
- 1Riz cuit avec des morceaux de viande, de volaille ou de poisson et très épicé.
This word in other languages
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pilaf", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 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.