Pilates
French, noun
Pilates is spelled P-I-L-A-T-E-S (7 letters) and appears about once in every 2 million words in written French, the 48,990th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pilates is a French masculine noun meaning “Pilates” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, pilâtes is a different word: “second-person plural past historic of piler”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Méthode de culture physique”.
What does Pilates mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinePilates
verb
- 1
second-person plural past historic of piler
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de Pilates.
noun: 1. Méthode de culture physique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Pilates
- pilates
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Pilates
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Pilates in French?
Pilates appears about once in every 2 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).