petit poussin
\pə.ti pu.sɛ̃\
The verdict
“petit poussin” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit poussin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petit-poussin · petit poussin · French
petit poussin · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 poussin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti pu.sɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « petit poussin » en français
Rare enough to double-check
petit poussin is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \pə.ti pu.sɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
petit poussin doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 poussin, spelled P-E-T-I-T- -P-O-U-S-S-I-N.
Definition
- 1Petit poussin.
- 2Jeune homme entretenu par une femme plus âgée, une mère poule.
- 3Très jeune sportif, en dessous de la première limite d’âge.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how petit poussin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Attends j’ai pas fini mon inventaire, y a aussi les femmes mariées avec leurs jules de jour et dans les bras d’un « petit poussin » la nuit, et naturellement, les professionnelles.
Nkwa Mambu n’a pas de résidence fixe, tantôt il est à l’hôtel, tantôt il est chez ses copains. Il est le « petit poussin » de mère Adolo, commerçante de son état, qu’il accompagne parfois dans ses navettes entre Kinshasa et Brazzaville.
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.