petit-vieux
\pə.ti.vjø\
The verdict
“petit-vieux” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Nom donné à un régiment sous Louis XIII et Louis XIV.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | petit-vieux |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \pə.ti.vjø\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “petit-vieux” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for petit-vieux is 11 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pə.ti.vjø\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Nom donné à un régiment sous Louis XIII et Louis XIV.".
Zero misspellings are on record for petit-vieux in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is petit-vieux, spelled P-E-T-I-T---V-I-E-U-X.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à un régiment sous Louis XIII et Louis XIV.
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.
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Using “petit-vieux”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-E-T-I-T---V-I-E-U-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \pə.ti.vjø\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.