petiot
\pə.tjo\
The verdict
“petiot” is uncommon French (frequency #61,028 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,028
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est tout petit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petiot · petiot · French
petiot · rank #61,028 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,028
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH persone
Nearest frequency peer: persone (-2 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 « petiot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- perquisitio…
perquisitionner
38,976 corpus weight
- persone
persone
38,975 corpus weight
- petiot
petiot
38,973 corpus weight
- Philomène
Philomène
38,971 corpus weight
- photojourna…
photojournalisme
38,970 corpus weight
- phénoménolo…
phénoménologique
38,969 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « petiot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petiot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \pə.tjo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #61,028 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « petiot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
petiot is uncommon French at frequency #61,028 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \pə.tjo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est tout petit.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for petiot, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is petiot, spelled P-E-T-I-O-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est tout petit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petiot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Petiot, maigriot, roussot, le cheveu rare, l'œil chassieux; non, décidément, M. Lecoq-Hue n'était pas très bien!
Il est petiot, pâlot, maigriot et morose ; il aime à se plaindre de tout ; il ne trouve rien de bien, sans doute, parce qu’il ne voit que lui.
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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