Petitot
The verdict
“Petitot” is uncommon French (frequency #97,273 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,273
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille français.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petitot · Petitot · French
Petitot · rank #97,273 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,273
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH perçait
Nearest frequency peer: perçait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Petitot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pencherait
pencherait
2,734 corpus weight
- pencil
pencil
2,733 corpus weight
- personelle
personelle
2,730 corpus weight
- perçait
perçait
2,729 corpus weight
- Petitot
Petitot
2,728 corpus weight
- pickle
pickle
2,724 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Petitot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Petitot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,273 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Petitot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Petitot is uncommon French at frequency #97,273 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille français.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Petitot in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Petitot, spelled P-E-T-I-T-O-T.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille français.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Petitot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Peut-être ce pavillon est-il le débris de quelque grand hôtel ; mais, après avoir consulté les vieux plans de Paris, il ne s’est rien trouvé qui confirmât cette conjecture ; et, d’ailleurs, les titres de Mlle Thuillier accusent pour propriétaire, sous Louis XIV, Petitot, le célèbre peintre en émaux, qui tenait cette propriété du président Lecamus.
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.
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