pilotés
\pi.lɔ.te\
The verdict
“pilotés” is uncommon French (frequency #51,658 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,658
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé masculin pluriel de piloter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilotes · pilotés · French
pilotés · rank #51,658 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,658
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pines
Nearest frequency peer: pines (+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 « pilotés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perquisitio…
perquisitionné
48,347 corpus weight
- Peyre
Peyre
48,345 corpus weight
- pilotés
pilotés
48,343 corpus weight
- pines
pines
48,342 corpus weight
- pinède
pinède
48,341 corpus weight
- playback
playback
48,340 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pilotés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilotés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #51,658 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pilotés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pilotés is uncommon French at frequency #51,658 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pi.lɔ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé masculin pluriel de piloter.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for pilotés, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is pilotés, spelled P-I-L-O-T-É-S.
Definition
- 1Participe passé masculin pluriel de piloter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pilotés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La colonne avait fini par se désenneiger, et, dès le jour paru, les avions de secours, pilotés par les guides basques, s’étaient mis en quête des rescapés, pour leur parachuter des vivres.
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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