mon petit bijou
\mɔ̃ p(ə)ti bi.ʒu\
The verdict
“mon petit bijou” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terme affectueux par lequel on s'adresse à la femme qu'on aime.
Corpus desk
Index FR-mon-petit-bijou · mon petit bijou · French
mon petit bijou · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | mon petit bijou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɔ̃ p(ə)ti bi.ʒu\ |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « mon petit bijou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
mon petit bijou is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \mɔ̃ p(ə)ti bi.ʒu\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terme affectueux par lequel on s'adresse à la femme qu'on aime.".
mon petit bijou doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is mon petit bijou, spelled M-O-N- -P-E-T-I-T- -B-I-J-O-U.
Definition
- 1Terme affectueux par lequel on s'adresse à la femme qu'on aime.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how mon petit bijou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Ne t’inquiète pas, mon petit bijou, dit Blondet à Florine en lui tapotant ses épaules, je lui procurerai l’assistance de Massol, ….
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.