Which to use
“pillée” and “piller” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #49,275
- “pillée” frequency rank
- #19,103
- “piller” frequency rank
- 68378
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pillée | piller |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Participe passé féminin singulier de piller. | Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc. |
Same sound, different letters: pillée vs piller
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters. pillée (CVCCVV) and piller (CVCCVC) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Ear matches; page differs - pillée and piller
This is the hard kind. pillée and piller are pronounced identically (\pi.je\) and both work as averb. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 68378, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pillée is recorded at frequency rank #49,275, classified as averb, pronounced \pi.je\. piller is at rank #19,103, tagged as averb, pronounced \pi.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 68378, this pair ranks #59,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of pillée vs piller
Shared letters: eilp. Private to "pillée": é. Private to "piller": r.
"pillée" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVV · "piller" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- piller ← ipller · pilelr · pillerr · pillre · pliler · ppiller
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "pillée" for "piller" ever safe?
Which is more common, "pillée" or "piller"?
What to do next
You've separated the homophone pair "pillée" / "piller". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "pillée" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "piller" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #59,419 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pillée" and "piller" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pillée vs Pirée". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #59,419 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.