pti
The verdict
“pti” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #34,701) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #34,701
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-pti · pti · French
pti · rank #34,701 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,701
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH préviennent
Nearest frequency peer: préviennent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « pti »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- prélevée
prélevée
65,303 corpus weight
- Prévert
Prévert
65,302 corpus weight
- préviennent
préviennent
65,301 corpus weight
- pti
pti
65,300 corpus weight
- puget
puget
65,299 corpus weight
- pédiatrique
pédiatrique
65,298 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « pti » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pti |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #34,701 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « pti »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for pti is neighbouring look-alikes ("pu", "PV", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #34,701 among 6,826 “P” headwords. Gloss: "Petit.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for pti in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "pu", "PV", "Py", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 pti, spelled P-T-I.
Definition
- 1Petit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how pti appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wi i war tou pti detay. — (Christian Servina, Aret Devan!, 2004, sekans 17 (scène 17))
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).