pilotage

\pi.lɔ.taʒ\

/\pi.lɔ.taʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“pilotage” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,379. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,379
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
5
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Art de conduire un vaisseau, un avion ou un dirigeable; connaissance en mathématique suffisante pour relever et tracer la marche d’un navire.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pilotage · pilotage · French

pilotage · rank #10,379 · 11 variants · 5 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,379
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pilier

Nearest frequency peer: pilier (-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 « pilotage »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pilotage » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pilotage vs pilote
75% similar
pilotage vs potage
75% similar
pilotage vs pilotée
75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pilotage
PropertyValue
Headwordpilotage
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.lɔ.taʒ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#10,379
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pilotage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pilotagese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pilier » (#10,378), « pleuré » (#10,380), « pH » (#10,377). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pilotage » est au #10,379. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around pilotage (IPA \pi.lɔ.taʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,379 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilotage, with forms such as "iplotage", "pillotage", and "piloatge". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pilote", "potage", "pilotée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 pilotage, spelled P-I-L-O-T-A-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Art de conduire un vaisseau, un avion ou un dirigeable; connaissance en mathématique suffisante pour relever et tracer la marche d’un navire.
  2. 2
    Action de conduire un vaisseau à l’entrée ou à la sortie d’un port.
  3. 3
    Action de diriger, d’administrer, une collectivité, une entreprise, etc.
  4. 4
    Ensemble des opérations de commande et de contrôle d’un réacteur nucléaire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pilotage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il y a des écoles où l’on enseigne le pilotage.
  2. Cours de pilotage.

This word in other languages

piloting(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iplotage
  • pillotage
  • piloatge
  • pilotaeg
  • pilotagge
  • pilotgae
  • pilottage
  • piltoage
  • pioltage
  • pliotage
  • ppilotage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilotage - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

iplotage2pillotage1piloatge2pilotaeg2pilotagge1pilotgae2pilottage1piltoage2
Edit distance from "pilotage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pilotage"?
"pilotage" is spelled P-I-L-O-T-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.lɔ.taʒ\.
What does "pilotage" mean?
As a noun, "pilotage" means: Art de conduire un vaisseau, un avion ou un dirigeable; connaissance en mathématique suffisante pour relever et tracer la marche d’un navire.
What words are commonly confused with "pilotage"?
"pilotage" is commonly confused with "pilote", "potage", "pilotée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pilotage"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pilotage" is \pi.lɔ.taʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pilotage" come from?
"pilotage" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pilotage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list