pilule
\pi.lyl\
The verdict
“pilule” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,907. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,907
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pharmaceutique en forme de petite boule, qu’on avale ; comprimé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pilule · pilule · French
pilule · rank #8,907 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,907
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH Philippines
Nearest frequency peer: Philippines (-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 « pilule »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- peintres
peintres
91,097 corpus weight
- perpignan
perpignan
91,096 corpus weight
- Philippines
Philippines
91,095 corpus weight
- pilule
pilule
91,094 corpus weight
- pleines
pleines
91,093 corpus weight
- produites
produites
91,091 corpus weight
What this shows « pilule » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pilule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pi.lyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,907 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « pilule »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around pilule (IPA \pi.lyl\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,907 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for pilule, with forms such as "iplule", "pillue", and "pillule". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pluie", "poule", "pique", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is pilule, spelled P-I-L-U-L-E.
Definition
- 1Forme pharmaceutique en forme de petite boule, qu’on avale ; comprimé.
- 2Produit, en forme de comprimé, qui est un des moyens de contraception pour la femme.
- 3Idée difficile à accepter, action difficile à faire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pilule appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’était un plastron en flanelle rouge, l’un de ces talismans quasi hygiéniques qui, avec les pilules et les spécialités pharmaceutiques, remplacent, chez les peuples protestants de la chrétienté, les images et les reliques miraculeuses.
Mais tout de suite, tombée à terre près de la chaise de Salomé, la chose m'a sauté aux yeux : cette plaque dont l'avers de plastique transparent faisait sandwich avec un revers de papier d'étain et laissait voir, dans vingt et une logettes, des pilules roses portant chacune l'indication d'un jour de la semaine.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- iplule
- pillue
- pillule
- piluel
- pilulle
- piulle
- pliule
- ppilule
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of pilule - 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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).