pilotant
\pi.lɔ.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“pilotant” is uncommon French (frequency #79,613 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,613
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de piloter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilotant · pilotant · French
pilotant · rank #79,613 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,613
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH piel
Nearest frequency peer: piel (-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 « pilotant »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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20,391 corpus weight
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Phobos
20,390 corpus weight
- piel
piel
20,389 corpus weight
- pilotant
pilotant
20,388 corpus weight
- pilotent
pilotent
20,387 corpus weight
- pizzerias
pizzerias
20,384 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pilotant » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilotant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #79,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pilotant » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pilotant is uncommon French at frequency #79,613 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.lɔ.tɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent de piloter.".
pilotant has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented 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 pilotant, spelled P-I-L-O-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de piloter.
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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