pétrir
\pe.tʁiʁ\
The verdict
“pétrir” is an uncommon French word, ranked #64,721 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #64,721
- frequency rank, French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Malaxer de la farine détrempée avec de l’eau pour en faire de la pâte.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétrir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.tʁiʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,721 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pétrir” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pétrir is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \pe.tʁiʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #64,721 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for pétrir, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pétrir, spelled P-É-T-R-I-R.
Definition
- 1Malaxer de la farine détrempée avec de l’eau pour en faire de la pâte.
- 2Presser et malaxer pour faire prendre une forme, modeler, façonner.
- 3Presser fortement avec les mains pour donner une autre forme ou pour assouplir.
- 4Façonner, travailler en profondeur.
- 5Produire un bruit désagréable semblable à ces cris et gémissements.
- 6Façonner d’une matière, d’un matériau, etc.
- 7Imbiber de sentiments.
This word in other languages
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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Using “pétrir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-É-T-R-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.