pillage
\pi.jaʒ\
The verdict
“pillage” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,207. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,207
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de piller, ou dégât qui en est la suite.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pillage · pillage · French
pillage · rank #16,207 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,207
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH physiologie
Nearest frequency peer: physiologie (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pillage »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peuplée
peuplée
83,796 corpus weight
- physiologie
physiologie
83,795 corpus weight
- pillage
pillage
83,794 corpus weight
- pion
pion
83,793 corpus weight
- pittoresque
pittoresque
83,792 corpus weight
- plaqué
plaqué
83,791 corpus weight
What this shows « pillage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pillage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.jaʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #16,207 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pillage »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pillage (IPA \pi.jaʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,207 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pillage, with forms such as "ipllage", "pilage", and "pilalge". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "plage", "Pille", "pliage", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pillage, spelled P-I-L-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de piller, ou dégât qui en est la suite.
- 2Attaque d’une colonie par une autre pour lui voler ses réserves de nourriture.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pillage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quelques maisons furent livrées au pillage, et trois des principaux habitants fusillés par jugement du conseil de guerre, exécution qui ne violait pas la capitulation, dont les clauses avaient mis les Véronais à la discrétion des vainqueurs.
Après mille scènes de pillage, de vexations, d'attaques à main armée, leur caravane arrive en octobre dans le vaste oasis de l'Asben.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ipllage
- pilage
- pilalge
- pillaeg
- pillagge
- pillgae
- plilage
- ppillage
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pillage - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).