piller

/\pi.je\/ verb

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#19,103

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

piller is aFrenchverb. It means: Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc. Pronounced \pi.je\. Often confused with plier and piper.

Key facts for piller
PropertyValue
Headwordpiller
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\pi.je\
Letters6
Frequency rank#19,103
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of piller in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for piller is 6 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.je\. Corpus data places it at rank #19,103 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for piller, with forms such as "ipller", "pilelr", and "pillerr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "plier", "piper", "piquer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is piller, spelled P-I-L-L-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc.
  2. 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. 3
    Prendre dans les ouvrages des autres des choses que l’on donne comme siennes, en parlant de littérature et de beaux-arts.
  4. 4
    Se jeter sur les animaux ou sur les personnes, en parlant des chiens.
  5. 5
    Au jeu de l’hombre, action qui consiste à prendre plus de cartes qu’il ne faut.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ipller,pilelr,pillerr,pillre,pliler,ppiller

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for piller

Misspelling Variants of "piller"

ipller6pilelr6pillerr7pillre6pliler6ppiller7
Misspelling Variants of "piller"

Frequency rank: #19,103 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "piller"?
"piller" is spelled P-I-L-L-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.je\.
What does "piller" mean?
As a verb, "piller" means: Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "piller"?
"piller" is commonly confused with "plier", "piper", "piquer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "piller"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "piller" is \pi.je\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "piller" come from?
"piller" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.