pilier
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,378
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pilier is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouvrage de maçonnerie en forme de grosse colonne ronde, carrée, etc., qui sert à soutenir un édifice ou quelque partie d’un édifice. Pronounced \pi.lje\. Often confused with plie and pitié.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,378 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pilier is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.lje\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,378 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilier, with forms such as "iplier", "piiler", and "pileir". 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, "plie", "pitié", "prier", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is pilier, spelled P-I-L-I-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de maçonnerie en forme de grosse colonne ronde, carrée, etc., qui sert à soutenir un édifice ou quelque partie d’un édifice.
- 2Pile, empilement.
- 3Poteau de justice ; fourches patibulaires.
- 4Poteaux qu’on met dans les écuries, pour séparer les places des chevaux les unes des autres, poteau entre lesquels on met un cheval dans un manège, pour commencer à le dresser.
- 5Soutien.
- 6Sorte de petite colonne qui, dans les montres et dans les pendules, tient les platines éloignées l’une de l’autre à une égale distance.
- 7Type de joueur qui doit pousser directement l’adversaire à l’extrémité de la mêlée, et qui porte en général le numéro 1 pour le pilier gauche, et 3 pour le droit.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iplier,piiler,pileir,pilierr,pilire,pillier,pliier,ppilier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pilier
Misspelling Variants of "pilier"
Frequency rank: #10,378 in French
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