pilots
\pi.lo\
The verdict
“pilots” is uncommon French (frequency #62,525 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,525
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de pilot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilots · pilots · French
pilots · rank #62,525 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,525
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pilotez
Nearest frequency peer: pilotez (-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 « pilots »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- phénicienne
phénicienne
37,479 corpus weight
- piastre
piastre
37,478 corpus weight
- pilotez
pilotez
37,477 corpus weight
- pilots
pilots
37,476 corpus weight
- pivoine
pivoine
37,475 corpus weight
- pivotant
pivotant
37,474 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pilots » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilots |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #62,525 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pilots » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pilots is uncommon French at frequency #62,525 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pi.lo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de pilot.".
Zero misspellings are on record for pilots in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pilots, spelled P-I-L-O-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de pilot.
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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