Pilate
\pi.lat\
The verdict
“Pilate” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,672. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,672
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ponce Pilate, gouverneur romain qui régissait la Judée lors de la mise en croix de Jésus de Nazareth.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilate · Pilate · French
Pilate · rank #34,672 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,672
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picot
Nearest frequency peer: picot (-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 « Pilate »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- pF
pF
65,332 corpus weight
- photons
photons
65,331 corpus weight
- picot
picot
65,330 corpus weight
- Pilate
Pilate
65,329 corpus weight
- pillards
pillards
65,328 corpus weight
- plafonnement
plafonnement
65,327 corpus weight
What this shows « Pilate » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pilate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \pi.lat\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Pilate »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Pilate (IPA \pi.lat\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #34,672 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ponce Pilate, gouverneur romain qui régissait la Judée lors de la mise en croix de Jésus de Nazareth.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Pilate, with forms such as "iplate", "pialte", and "pilaet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plat", "pile", "place", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Pilate, spelled P-I-L-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1Ponce Pilate, gouverneur romain qui régissait la Judée lors de la mise en croix de Jésus de Nazareth.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Pilate appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En raison du sort différent qu’ils accordent à Pilate, ces deux apocryphes nous orientent vers un regard sur le visage que Pilate revêt au cours des siècles dans la tradition chrétienne.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iplate
- pialte
- pilaet
- pilatte
- pillate
- piltae
- pliate
- ppilate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Pilate - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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