petit pain
\pə.ti pɛ̃\
The verdict
“petit pain” 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) - Viennoiserie (non feuilletée) en forme de petit pain, au lait et sucré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petit-pain · petit pain · French
petit pain · 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 pain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
petit pain is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.ti pɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for petit pain in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pain, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -P-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Viennoiserie (non feuilletée) en forme de petit pain, au lait et sucré.
- 2Pain au chocolat.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petit pain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je vais chez le boulanger prendre un petit pain d’un sou où je mords comme un chien.
Je sais aujourd’hui que c’étaient des albums d’images d’Épinal coloriées au pochoir, ils dataient au moins de Napoléon III, on les regardait en mangeant notre quatre-heures qu’on avait apporté dans notre petit panier à rabattants, moi c’était toujours un petit pain au lait avec une barre de chocolat à la crème, toujours.
This word in other languages
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.