petit noir
\pti.nwaʁ\
The verdict
“petit noir” 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) - Tasse de café.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petit-noir · petit noir · French
petit noir · 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 noir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pti.nwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « petit noir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
petit noir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pti.nwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Tasse de café.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for petit noir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is petit noir, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -N-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Tasse de café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petit noir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je me prendrais bien un petit noir avant de me coucher.
À tour de rôle ils vont au bar du coin se prendre un petit noir.
Synonyms
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.