à petits frais
\a pə.ti fʁɛ\
The verdict
“à petits frais” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - À peu de frais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a-petits-frais · à petits frais · French
à petits frais · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "À" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | à petits frais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a pə.ti fʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
à petits frais is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed \a pə.ti fʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "À peu de frais.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for à petits frais, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is à petits frais, spelled À- -P-E-T-I-T-S- -F-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1À peu de frais.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how à petits frais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ce monde vivait chichement et s'habillait à petits frais rue Saint-André-des-Arts, chez Latreille, fripier en renom.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.