Pilatus
The verdict
“Pilatus” is uncommon French (frequency #98,356 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,356
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avion du constructeur Pilatus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilatus · Pilatus · French
Pilatus · rank #98,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,356
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picots
Nearest frequency peer: picots (-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 « Pilatus »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photogéniqu…
photogéniques
1,648 corpus weight
- pianistique
pianistique
1,647 corpus weight
- picots
picots
1,646 corpus weight
- Pilatus
Pilatus
1,645 corpus weight
- pillar
pillar
1,644 corpus weight
- pillow
pillow
1,643 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Pilatus » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Pilatus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #98,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Pilatus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Pilatus is uncommon French at frequency #98,356 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Avion du constructeur Pilatus.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Pilatus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Pilatus, spelled P-I-L-A-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1Avion du constructeur Pilatus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Pilatus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Pilatus d’American Eagle se posa sur la piste de l’aéroport municipal de Ticonderoga en début d’après-midi.
– Le Pilatus PC-12, monomoteur, turbopropulsion, dit Yon. Avion remarquable.
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
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).