Which to use
“pilotage” is a noun and “pilotée” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #10,379
- “pilotage” frequency rank
- #27,568
- “pilotée” frequency rank
- 37947
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | pilotage | pilotée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Art de conduire un vaisseau, un avion ou un dirigeable; connaissance en mathématique suffisante pour relever et tracer la marche d’un navire. | Participe passé féminin singulier de piloter. |
Where the eye mixes pilotage and pilotée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. pilotage runs 8 letters (CVCVCVCV) against pilotée's 7 (CVCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: pilotage vs pilotée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: pilotage is \pi.lɔ.taʒ\ while pilotée is \pi.lɔ.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs verb), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37947, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
pilotage is recorded at frequency rank #10,379, classified as anoun, pronounced \pi.lɔ.taʒ\. pilotée is at rank #27,568, tagged as averb, pronounced \pi.lɔ.te\.
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 37947, this pair ranks #258,822 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of pilotage vs pilotée
Shared letters: eilopt. Private to "pilotage": ag. Private to "pilotée": é.
"pilotage" · 8 letters · shape CVCVCVCV · "pilotée" · 7 letters · shape CVCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- pilotage ← iplotage · pillotage · piloatge · pilotaeg · pilotagge · pilotgae · pilottage · piltoage
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "pilotage" for "pilotée" ever safe?
In ordinary French text, does "pilotage" or "pilotée" show up more?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "pilotage" and "pilotée" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "pilotage" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "pilotée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #258,822 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "pilotage" and "pilotée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "pillée vs pilotée". 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 #258,822 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.