pilastre
\pi.lastʁ\
The verdict
“pilastre” is an uncommon French word, ranked #87,939 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,939
- frequency rank, French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Pilier carré, auquel on donne les mêmes proportions et les mêmes ornements qu’aux colonnes et qui ordinairement est engagé dans un mur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilastre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lastʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #87,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pilastre” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pilastre is 8 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.lastʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #87,939 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Pilier carré, auquel on donne les mêmes proportions et les mêmes ornements qu’aux colonnes et qui ordinairement est engagé dans un mur.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pilastre in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pilastre, spelled P-I-L-A-S-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Pilier carré, auquel on donne les mêmes proportions et les mêmes ornements qu’aux colonnes et qui ordinairement est engagé dans un mur.
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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-I-L-A-S-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.