Which to use
“piller” and “pillés” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #19,103
- “piller” frequency rank
- #40,925
- “pillés” frequency rank
- 60028
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | piller | pillés |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Emporter violemment les biens d’une ville, d’une maison, etc. | Participe passé masculin pluriel de piller. |
Same sound, different letters: piller vs pillés
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 4 letters. piller and pillés follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCCVC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Homophone desk: piller vs pillés
This is the hard kind. piller and pillés 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 60028, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
piller is recorded at frequency rank #19,103, classified as averb, pronounced \pi.je\. pillés is at rank #40,925, 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 60028, this pair ranks #99,855 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of piller vs pillés
Shared letters: ilp. Private to "piller": er. Private to "pillés": sé.
"piller" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC · "pillés" · 6 letters · shape CVCCVC
Known mistypes of this pair
- piller ← ipller · pilelr · pillerr · pillre · pliler · ppiller
Frequently Asked Questions
Can "piller" and "pillés" be used interchangeably?
Which is more common, "piller" or "pillés"?
After this comparison
You've separated the homophone pair "piller" / "pillés". Follow the links when you need the full entry or a neighbour that trips the same ear.
- Full dictionary entry for "piller" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pillés" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #99,855 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "piller" and "pillés" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pillés vs poilues". 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 #99,855 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.