pillant
\pi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“pillant” is uncommon French (frequency #61,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,034
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de piller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pillant · pillant · French
pillant · rank #61,034 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,034
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pictogrammes
Nearest frequency peer: pictogrammes (-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 « pillant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- photojourna…
photojournalisme
38,970 corpus weight
- phénoménolo…
phénoménologique
38,969 corpus weight
- pictogrammes
pictogrammes
38,968 corpus weight
- pillant
pillant
38,967 corpus weight
- piquez
piquez
38,966 corpus weight
- piranha
piranha
38,965 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pillant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pillant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,034 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pillant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pillant is uncommon French at frequency #61,034 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.jɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de piller.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pillant, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pillant, spelled P-I-L-L-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de piller.
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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