pilleur
\pi.jœʁ\
The verdict
“pilleur” is uncommon French (frequency #87,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,018
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui pille, qui a l’habitude de piller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilleur · pilleur · French
pilleur · rank #87,018 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,018
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pisteur
Nearest frequency peer: pisteur (+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 « pilleur »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pensionné
pensionné
12,987 corpus weight
- percepteurs
percepteurs
12,986 corpus weight
- peule
peule
12,985 corpus weight
- pilleur
pilleur
12,983 corpus weight
- pisteur
pisteur
12,982 corpus weight
- plaisantent
plaisantent
12,980 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pilleur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilleur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #87,018 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pilleur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pilleur is uncommon French at frequency #87,018 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.jœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui qui pille, qui a l’habitude de piller.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pilleur, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pilleur, spelled P-I-L-L-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Celui qui pille, qui a l’habitude de piller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pilleur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pilleur d’épaves.
Il regrette de n’avoir pas mis immédiatement à mort le pilleur de sarcophage, maintenant que tout espoir a disparu de retrouver la momie de Taa.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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