pilotage

/\pi.lɔ.taʒ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,379

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

pilotage is aFrenchnoun. It means: Art de conduire un vaisseau, un avion ou un dirigeable; connaissance en mathématique suffisante pour relever et tracer la marche d’un navire. Pronounced \pi.lɔ.taʒ\. Often confused with pilote and potage.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of pilotage in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for pilotage is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.lɔ.taʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,379 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilotage, with forms such as "iplotage", "pillotage", and "piloatge". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "pilote", "potage", "pilotée", 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 pilotage, spelled P-I-L-O-T-A-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: iplotage,pillotage,piloatge,pilotaeg,pilotagge,pilotgae,pilottage,piltoage,pioltage,pliotage,ppilotage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pilotage

Misspelling Variants of "pilotage"

iplotage8pillotage9piloatge8pilotaeg8pilotagge9pilotgae8pilottage9piltoage8
Misspelling Variants of "pilotage"

Frequency rank: #10,379 in French

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 covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.