pilonner
\pi.lɔ.ne\
The verdict
“pilonner” is uncommon French (frequency #68,547 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,547
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tasser la terre avec un pilon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilonner · pilonner · French
pilonner · rank #68,547 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,547
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pierreux
Nearest frequency peer: pierreux (-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 « pilonner »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phytoplanct…
phytoplancton
31,458 corpus weight
- pian
pian
31,457 corpus weight
- pierreux
pierreux
31,455 corpus weight
- pilonner
pilonner
31,454 corpus weight
- pineda
pineda
31,453 corpus weight
- Pinet
Pinet
31,452 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pilonner » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilonner |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,547 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pilonner » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pilonner is uncommon French at frequency #68,547 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.lɔ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
pilonner has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is pilonner, spelled P-I-L-O-N-N-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tasser la terre avec un pilon.
- 2Écraser, broyer.
- 3Écraser sous les obus.
- 4Envoyer au pilon, éliminer.
- 5Pénétrer sexuellement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pilonner appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À cent mètres de distance, déjà, le rythme vous broie le cœur, vous pilonne le bas-ventre, c’est lourd, puissant, les familles font demi-tour, mains plaquées sur les oreilles de leurs enfants.
Le 28 janvier au matin, les Anglais passèrent à l’attaque et leur artillerie lourde pilonna les fortifications situées sur la colline de la Table. À l’abri dans leurs tranchées, les Burghers firent le dos rond. Peu de temps après, le 58e régiment d’infanterie britannique s’élança sur les pentes caillouteuses du coteau.
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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