piller
French, verb/pi.je/
piller is spelled P-I-L-L-E-R (6 letters) and appears 2.3 times per million words in written French, the 18,966th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Piller is a French verb meaning “to plunder; to pillage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc”.
What does piller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to plunder; to pillage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc. 2. Commettre des exactions, des concussions, en parlant de ceux qui le font dans leur charge, dans leur emploi, des gains illicites et scandaleux. 3. Prendre dans les ouvrages des autres des choses que l’on donne comme siennes, en parlant de littérature et de beaux-arts. 4. Se jeter sur les animaux ou sur les personnes, en parlant des chiens.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of piller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- pillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- pillé participle past
- pille first-person indicative present
- pilles indicative present second-person
- pillons first-person indicative plural
- pillez indicative plural present
- pillent indicative plural present
- pillais first-person imperfect indicative
- pillait imperfect indicative singular
- pillions first-person imperfect indicative
- pilliez imperfect indicative plural
- pillaient imperfect indicative plural
- pillai first-person historic indicative
- pillas historic indicative past
- pilla historic indicative past
- pillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce piller?
- /pi.je/
- \pi.je\
- [pi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to piller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is piller in French?
piller appears 2.3 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).