pilotis
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,997
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
pilotis is aFrenchnoun. It means: Système de fondation par pieux foncés et recepés portant radier, appelés pilots, en terrain meuble et aquifère. Pronounced \pi.lɔ.ti\. Often confused with plots and pivots.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilotis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lɔ.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #36,997 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pilotis is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pi.lɔ.ti\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,997 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 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilotis, with forms such as "iplotis", "pillotis", and "piloits". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "plots", "pivots", "pilot", 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 pilotis, spelled P-I-L-O-T-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Système de fondation par pieux foncés et recepés portant radier, appelés pilots, en terrain meuble et aquifère.
- 2Gros pieu, grosse pièce de bois pointue, et ordinairement ferrée par le bout, qu’on fait entrer avec force dans le sol pour asseoir les fondements d’un édifice ou d’un autre ouvrage, lorsqu’on veut bâtir dans l’eau ou dans un lieu dont le fond n’est pas solide. Pilot.
- 3Rez-de-chaussée transformé en un espace dégagé destiné aux circulations, premier des cinq points de l’architecture moderne.
- 4Soutien.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: iplotis,pillotis,piloits,pilotiss,pilotsi,pilottis,piltois,pioltis,pliotis,ppilotis
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Misspelling Variants of "pilotis"
Frequency rank: #36,997 in French
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