petit-lait
\pə.ti.lɛ\
The verdict
“petit-lait” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Liquide protéiné contenant peu de matières grasses, restant après égouttage d’un lait coagulé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petit-lait · petit-lait · French
petit-lait · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | petit-lait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « petit-lait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
petit-lait is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.ti.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for petit-lait, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 petit-lait, spelled P-E-T-I-T---L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Liquide protéiné contenant peu de matières grasses, restant après égouttage d’un lait coagulé.
- 2Peut également désigner, lorsque la distinction fine n’est pas requise, le babeurre.
- 3Grande satisfaction.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petit-lait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], quand on voit que le caillé tombe au fond, on retire l'eau et le petit-lait ; […].
Ils disent : "Madame la comtesse est grosse, il est probable que sa délivrance déterminera une crise favorable. Qu'on la tienne en bon air, à la campagne, du petit-lait, de la codéine…"
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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.