pilote
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,490
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
pilote is aFrenchnoun. It means: Personne qui aide le capitaine d’un navire à l’entrée d’un port ou dans les passages difficiles ; celui qui gouverne, qui conduit un bâtiment de mer. Pronounced \pi.lɔt\. It ranks #2,490 in French word frequency. Often confused with pote and plot.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilote |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lɔt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pilote is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.lɔt\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,490 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for pilote, with forms such as "iplote", "pillote", and "piloet". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pote", "plot", "piste", 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 pilote, spelled P-I-L-O-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Personne qui aide le capitaine d’un navire à l’entrée d’un port ou dans les passages difficiles ; celui qui gouverne, qui conduit un bâtiment de mer.
- 2Personne qui conduit un avion, un dirigeable, une voiture de course, etc.
- 3Logiciel système chargé d’assurer la communication entre le système d’exploitation et un périphérique matériel (→ voir pilote de périphérique).
- 4Premier épisode de série télévisée utilisé comme test pour prendre la décision définitive du lancement de la série en fonction de l’accueil du public.
- 5Prototype miniature d’un projet industriel.
- 6Personne engagée pour guider un journaliste ou un homme d’affaires et pour favoriser ses contacts dans un milieu qui lui est inconnu, voire hostile.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iplote,pillote,piloet,pilotte,piltoe,piolte,pliote,ppilote
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for pilote
Misspelling Variants of "pilote"
Frequency rank: #2,490 in French
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Nearby French words
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