petis
\ˈpe.tis\
The verdict
“petis” is uncommon French (frequency #95,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,150
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Passé du verbe peti (transitif).
Corpus desk
Index FR-petis · petis · French
petis · rank #95,150 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,150
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pesais
Nearest frequency peer: pesais (-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 « petis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pensèrent
pensèrent
4,855 corpus weight
- perclus
perclus
4,854 corpus weight
- pesais
pesais
4,852 corpus weight
- petis
petis
4,851 corpus weight
- Pfaff
Pfaff
4,849 corpus weight
- phénoliques
phénoliques
4,847 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « petis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈpe.tis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #95,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « petis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
petis is uncommon French at frequency #95,150 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈpe.tis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Passé du verbe peti (transitif).".
Zero misspellings are on record for petis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is petis, spelled P-E-T-I-S.
Definition
- 1Passé du verbe peti (transitif).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
§15 malriĉa virino, kiu petis ŝin, ke ŝi donu al ŝi trinki
§19 unu sinjorinon, tre riĉe vestitan, kiu eliris el la arbaro kaj petis de ŝi trinki
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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