stiller
\sti.le\
The verdict
“stiller” is uncommon French (frequency #54,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,925
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tomber goutte à goutte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stiller · stiller · French
stiller · rank #54,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,925
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH stoppeur
Nearest frequency peer: stoppeur (+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 « stiller »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- spectral
spectral
45,080 corpus weight
- sponsoriser
sponsoriser
45,079 corpus weight
- SRU
SRU
45,078 corpus weight
- stiller
stiller
45,076 corpus weight
- stoppeur
stoppeur
45,075 corpus weight
- stratosphère
stratosphère
45,074 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stiller » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stiller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \sti.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stiller » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stiller is uncommon French at frequency #54,925 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \sti.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stiller, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is stiller, spelled S-T-I-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Tomber goutte à goutte.
- 2Faire tomber goutte à goutte. [Sur le même modèle que distiller lui aussi transitif.]
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stiller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Votre sang si pur, notre otage, Coule mystiquement comme il coula littéral Au Golgotha, comme il stilla, non pas plus réel, Mais littéral aussi, ce jour, dont le rituel Retient l'anniversaire cruel et lilial.
Elle stillait doucement de sous la glace : un quartz poli, qu’elle avait creusé en calice, la recueillait.
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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