pilori
\pi.lɔ.ʁi\
The verdict
“pilori” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,972. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,972
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Roue, poteau ou pilier sur lequel on attachait un condamné pour l’exposer en public au mépris de tous.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilori · pilori · French
pilori · rank #37,972 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,972
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH picoler
Nearest frequency peer: picoler (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « pilori »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- permaculture
permaculture
62,032 corpus weight
- photographi…
photographiée
62,031 corpus weight
- picoler
picoler
62,030 corpus weight
- pilori
pilori
62,029 corpus weight
- plugin
plugin
62,028 corpus weight
- pluvieuse
pluvieuse
62,027 corpus weight
What this shows « pilori » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilori |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.ʁi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,972 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pilori »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pilori (IPA \pi.lɔ.ʁi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #37,972 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilori, with forms such as "iplori", "pillori", and "piloir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "pilot", "pilote", "priori", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pilori, spelled P-I-L-O-R-I.
Definition
- 1Roue, poteau ou pilier sur lequel on attachait un condamné pour l’exposer en public au mépris de tous.
- 2Exhibition au mépris de tous.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pilori appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Nous avons des lois de S. Louis & de plusieurs autres de nos rois, qui condamnent les blasphémateurs à être mis au pilori & à avoir la langue percée avec un fer chaud par la main du bourreau.
Messieurs les sergents à verge, vous me mènerez ce drôle au pilori de la Grève, vous le battrez et vous le tournerez une heure.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iplori
- pillori
- piloir
- pilorri
- pilroi
- piolri
- pliori
- ppilori
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilori - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pilori", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).