petit pois
Letters
10 characters
Language
French
word origin
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petit pois is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pois de la variété Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum var. sativum, dont on mange les graines fraîches avant maturité. Pronounced \pə.ti pwa\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petit pois |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti pwa\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for petit pois is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.ti pwa\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for petit pois in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is petit pois, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -P-O-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pois de la variété Pisum sativum L. subsp. sativum var. sativum, dont on mange les graines fraîches avant maturité.
- 2Magistrat.
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