pillar
\ˈpɪl.ə(ɹ)\
The verdict
“pillar” is uncommon French (frequency #98,357 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,357
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pilier, colonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pillar · pillar · French
pillar · rank #98,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,357
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Pilatus
Nearest frequency peer: Pilatus (-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 « pillar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pianistique
pianistique
1,647 corpus weight
- picots
picots
1,646 corpus weight
- Pilatus
Pilatus
1,645 corpus weight
- pillar
pillar
1,644 corpus weight
- pillow
pillow
1,643 corpus weight
- pinker
pinker
1,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pillar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pillar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈpɪl.ə(ɹ)\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pillar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pillar is uncommon French at frequency #98,357 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈpɪl.ə(ɹ)\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pilier, colonne.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pillar, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is pillar, spelled P-I-L-L-A-R.
Definition
- 1Pilier, colonne.
Synonyms
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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