piloter
\pi.lɔ.te\
The verdict
“piloter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,863
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Conduire un bâtiment de mer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-piloter · piloter · French
piloter · rank #13,863 · 10 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,863
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perturber
Nearest frequency peer: perturber (-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 « piloter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- paternité
paternité
86,141 corpus weight
- pe
pe
86,140 corpus weight
- perturber
perturber
86,139 corpus weight
- piloter
piloter
86,138 corpus weight
- pink
pink
86,137 corpus weight
- plais
plais
86,136 corpus weight
What this shows « piloter » 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 | piloter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « piloter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around piloter (IPA \pi.lɔ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,863 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for piloter, with forms such as "iploter", "pilloter", and "piloetr". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "Piotr", "pister", "pirater", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is piloter, spelled P-I-L-O-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Conduire un bâtiment de mer.
- 2Conduire un avion, un dirigeable.
- 3Servir à quelqu’un de guide dans le monde, dans une ville, etc.
- 4(Sport mécanique) Conduire une automobile lors d'une compétition sportive
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how piloter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Piloter un navire hors du port.
Quelle ne fut pas ma surprise d’avoir en mains un avion qui ne demandait qu’à monter. Il était toujours assez pénible à piloter, parce qu’il était très lourd, mais sa vitesse ascensionnelle me surprenait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iploter
- pilloter
- piloetr
- piloterr
- pilotre
- pilotter
- piltoer
- piolter
- plioter
- ppiloter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of piloter - 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 "piloter", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).