piler
\pi.le\
The verdict
“piler” is uncommon French (frequency #67,775 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,775
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Broyer, écraser quelque chose avec un pilon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piler · piler · French
piler · rank #67,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,775
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pieuvres
Nearest frequency peer: pieuvres (-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 « piler »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phébus
phébus
32,229 corpus weight
- piana
piana
32,228 corpus weight
- pieuvres
pieuvres
32,227 corpus weight
- piler
piler
32,226 corpus weight
- pilée
pilée
32,225 corpus weight
- piétinent
piétinent
32,224 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « piler » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piler |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « piler » en français
Rare enough to double-check
piler is uncommon French at frequency #67,775 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for piler in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is piler, spelled P-I-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Broyer, écraser quelque chose avec un pilon.
- 2Battre totalement, battre à plate couture, écraser.
- 3Piétiner, marcher sur quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piler appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Les bonnes femmes en disent bien d’autres… Va les questionner, au fond du faubourg. Elles te diront qu’il pile des os de mort dans du sang de nouveau-né.
Elles accomplissaient des tâches qui leur étaient a priori familières : elles nettoyaient le riz, pilaient l’igname et moulaient le maïs. Elles travaillaient aussi comme cuisinières, […].
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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