petitesse

\pə.ti.tɛs\

/\pə.ti.tɛs\/ noun

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The verdict

“petitesse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,090. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,090
frequency rank, French
6,826
“P” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petite dimension, petite étendue, petit volume.

Corpus desk

Index FR-petitesse · petitesse · French

petitesse · rank #44,090 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #44,090
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,826
  • PHOTO-FINISH personnalisab…

Nearest frequency peer: personnalisable (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « petitesse »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « petitesse » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

petitesse vs politesse
78% similar
petitesse vs petites
78% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for petitesse
PropertyValue
Headwordpetitesse
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\pə.ti.tɛs\
Letters9
Frequency rank#44,090
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « petitesse »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).petitessese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « personnalisable » (#44,089), « pharaonique » (#44,091), « period » (#44,088). Parmi 6,826 lemmes en « P », « petitesse » est au #44,090. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around petitesse (IPA \pə.ti.tɛs\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,090 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for petitesse, with forms such as "eptitesse", "peittesse", and "petietsse". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "politesse", "petites", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is petitesse, spelled P-E-T-I-T-E-S-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Petite dimension, petite étendue, petit volume.
  2. 2
    Modicité, surtout en parlant de dons, de présents.
  3. 3
    Faiblesse.
  4. 4
    Étroitesse ; mesquinerie.
  5. 5
    Actions qui dénotent cette petitesse.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how petitesse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais, pour contre-balancer de tels désavantages, la marquise d’Aubrion avait donné à sa fille un air très distingué, l’avait soumise à une hygiène qui maintenait provisoirement le nez à un ton de chair raisonnable, lui avait appris l’art de se mettre avec goût, l’avait dotée de jolies manières, lui avait enseigné ces regards mélancoliques qui intéressent…
  2. La Girafe […] ne soutient point longtemps cet effort, qu’elle ressent comme une fatigue : c’est que ses poumons n’ont pas assez d’ampleur ; défaut que révèle la petitesse du coffre qui les contient.

This word in other languages

smallness(English)pequeñez(Español)Kleinigkeit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eptitesse
  • peittesse
  • petietsse
  • petitese
  • petiteses
  • petitsese
  • petittesse
  • pettiesse
  • pettitesse
  • ppetitesse
  • pteitesse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of petitesse - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

eptitesse2peittesse2petietsse2petitese1petiteses2petitsese2petittesse1pettiesse2
Edit distance from "petitesse"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "petitesse"?
"petitesse" is spelled P-E-T-I-T-E-S-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \pə.ti.tɛs\.
What does "petitesse" mean?
As a noun, "petitesse" means: Petite dimension, petite étendue, petit volume.
What words are commonly confused with "petitesse"?
"petitesse" is commonly confused with "politesse", "petites". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "petitesse"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "petitesse" is \pə.ti.tɛs\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "petitesse" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "petitesse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

pantomime#44,083palatinat#44,082népotisme#44,069motorisée#44,057

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

patterns11 variantspressées11 variantsnotifiée11 variantspuanteur11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list