pilotis

\pi.lɔ.ti\

/\pi.lɔ.ti\/ noun

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The verdict

“pilotis” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,997. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#36,997
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
7
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système de fondation par pieux foncés et recepés portant radier, appelés pilots, en terrain meuble et aquifère.

Corpus desk

Index FR-pilotis · pilotis · French

pilotis · rank #36,997 · 10 variants · 7 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #36,997
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH pillent

Nearest frequency peer: pillent (-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 « pilotis »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « pilotis » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

pilotis vs plots
71% similar
pilotis vs pivots
71% similar
pilotis vs pilot
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for pilotis
PropertyValue
Headwordpilotis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pi.lɔ.ti\
Letters7
Frequency rank#36,997
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pilotis »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.pilotisse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « pillent » (#36,996), « Piero » (#36,995), « placide » (#36,999). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « pilotis » est au #36,997. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around pilotis (IPA \pi.lɔ.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,997 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 pilotis, with forms such as "iplotis", "pillotis", and "piloits". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "plots", "pivots", "pilot", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pilotis, spelled P-I-L-O-T-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Système de fondation par pieux foncés et recepés portant radier, appelés pilots, en terrain meuble et aquifère.
  2. 2
    Gros 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.
  3. 3
    Rez-de-chaussée transformé en un espace dégagé destiné aux circulations, premier des cinq points de l’architecture moderne.
  4. 4
    Soutien.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how pilotis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On apercevait des moutons et des chèvres renfermés dans de grandes cages élevées sur pilotis, ce qui les préservait de la dent du léopard.
  2. Les pilotis, solidement encastrés dans le sol, n’avaient point cédé, et l’ensemble tenait bon.

This word in other languages

stilt(English)pilote(Español)Stelze(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • iplotis
  • pillotis
  • piloits
  • pilotiss
  • pilotsi
  • pilottis
  • piltois
  • pioltis
  • pliotis
  • ppilotis

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilotis - 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.

iplotis2pillotis1piloits2pilotiss1pilotsi2pilottis1piltois2pioltis2
Edit distance from "pilotis"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "pilotis"?
"pilotis" is spelled P-I-L-O-T-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \pi.lɔ.ti\.
What does "pilotis" mean?
As a noun, "pilotis" means: Système de fondation par pieux foncés et recepés portant radier, appelés pilots, en terrain meuble et aquifère.
What words are commonly confused with "pilotis"?
"pilotis" is commonly confused with "plots", "pivots", "pilot". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "pilotis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "pilotis" is \pi.lɔ.ti\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "pilotis" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "pilotis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pillent#36,996placide#36,999parlées#36,990parente#36,989

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

protons10 variantsorigins10 variantsopprobre10 variantsopening10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list