pillée

\pi.je\

/\pi.je\/ verb

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The verdict

“pillée” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,275. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,275
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de piller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pillee · pillée · French

pillée · rank #49,275 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,275
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pimenter

Nearest frequency peer: pimenter (+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 « pillée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pillée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pillée vs pliée
67% similar
pillée vs Pirée
50% similar
pillée vs pilote
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pillée
PropertyValue
Headwordpillée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pi.je\
Letters6
Frequency rank#49,275
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pillée »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pilléese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pimenter » (#49,276), « Pierrefitte » (#49,273), « pio » (#49,277). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pillée » est au #49,275. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around pillée (IPA \pi.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,275 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de piller.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for pillée, with forms such as "ipllée", "pillee", and "pilleé". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pliée", "Pirée", "pilote", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pillée, spelled P-I-L-L-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Participe passé féminin singulier de piller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how pillée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Or, Canton est située sur le Tchou-Kiang, près de la mer, et, à l’époque indiquée par les deux voyageurs, a été pillée par un rebelle, nommé Houang-Tchao.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ipllée
  • pillee
  • pilleé
  • piléle
  • plilée
  • ppillée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pillée - 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.

ipllée2pillee1pilleé2piléle2plilée2ppillée1
Edit distance from "pillée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pillée"?
"pillée" is spelled P-I-L-L-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.je\.
What does "pillée" mean?
As a verb, "pillée" means: Participe passé féminin singulier de piller.
What words are commonly confused with "pillée"?
"pillée" is commonly confused with "pliée", "Pirée", "pilote". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pillée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pillée" is \pi.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pillée" come from?
"pillée" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pillée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pivots#49,278pencha#49,265nostre#49,251rachis#49,307

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Prez6 variantspriée6 variantsMeier6 variantsskull6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list