pétille
\pe.tij\
The verdict
“pétille” is uncommon French (frequency #76,048 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,048
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de pétiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petille · pétille · French
pétille · rank #76,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,048
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH périront
Nearest frequency peer: périront (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pétille »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- publièrent
publièrent
23,957 corpus weight
- pulvérisés
pulvérisés
23,956 corpus weight
- pyrolyse
pyrolyse
23,955 corpus weight
- périront
périront
23,954 corpus weight
- pétille
pétille
23,953 corpus weight
- quadrige
quadrige
23,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétille |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.tij\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #76,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétille » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétille is uncommon French at frequency #76,048 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
pétille doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is pétille, spelled P-É-T-I-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de pétiller.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de pétiller.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pétiller.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de pétiller.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de pétiller.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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