pill
\pɪl\
The verdict
“pill” is uncommon French (frequency #65,411 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,411
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Comprimé, pilule.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pill · pill · French
pill · rank #65,411 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,411
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pierron
Nearest frequency peer: Pierron (-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 « pill »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photomaton
photomaton
34,593 corpus weight
- pickpockets
pickpockets
34,592 corpus weight
- Pierron
Pierron
34,591 corpus weight
- pill
pill
34,590 corpus weight
- pioncer
pioncer
34,589 corpus weight
- Pithiviers
Pithiviers
34,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pill » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pill |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pɪl\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,411 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pill » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pill is uncommon French at frequency #65,411 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pɪl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for pill in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pill, spelled P-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Comprimé, pilule.
- 2Pillule (contraceptive).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Is she on the pill?
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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