petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid is 36 letters long, classified as a phrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "wer langsam fährt, kommt auch zum Ziel (Qui avance lentement atteint aussi le but), mit der Zeit pflückt man Rosen (Avec le temps, on cueille des roses)".

No misspelling variants are generated for petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -À- -P-E-T-I-T-,- -L-’-O-I-S-E-A-U- -F-A-I-T- -S-O-N- -N-I-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.