piller
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | piller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.je\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #19,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc.
- 2Commettre des exactions, des concussions, en parlant de ceux qui le font dans leur charge, dans leur emploi, des gains illicites et scandaleux.
- 3Prendre dans les ouvrages des autres des choses que l’on donne comme siennes, en parlant de littérature et de beaux-arts.
- 4Se jeter sur les animaux ou sur les personnes, en parlant des chiens.
- 5Au jeu de l’hombre, action qui consiste à prendre plus de cartes qu’il ne faut.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ipller,pilelr,pillerr,pillre,pliler,ppiller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "piller"
Frequency rank: #19,103 in French
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