pils
\pils\
The verdict
“pils” is uncommon French (frequency #85,133 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,133
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bière blonde de basse fermentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pils · pils · French
pils · rank #85,133 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,133
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pik
Nearest frequency peer: pik (-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 « pils »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Philippi
Philippi
14,873 corpus weight
- picaresque
picaresque
14,871 corpus weight
- pik
pik
14,869 corpus weight
- pils
pils
14,868 corpus weight
- piz
piz
14,865 corpus weight
- pleurerai
pleurerai
14,864 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pils » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pils\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #85,133 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pils » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pils is uncommon French at frequency #85,133 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \pils\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bière blonde de basse fermentation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for pils in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pils, spelled P-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Bière blonde de basse fermentation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ramène-moi un bac de pils, s'il-te-plait.
La pils, bière blonde la plus consommée dans le monde, doit son nom à la ville tchèque de Pilsen.
This word in other languages
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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