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6-letter words (2 found)

PATIOS,PATOIS,

5-letter words (11 found)

IOTAS,OSTIA,PATIO,PITAS,POSIT,PSOAI,SPAIT,STIPA,STOAI,TAPIS,TOPIS,

4-letter words (37 found)

AITS,APOS,APSO,APTS,ATOP,IOTA,ITAS,OAST,OATS,OPAS,OPTS,PAIS,PAST,PATS,PIAS,PISO,PITA,PITS,POAS,POIS,POST,POTS,SATI,SOAP,SPAT,SPIT,SPOT,STAP,STOA,STOP,TAIS,TAOS,TAPS,TIPS,TOPI,TOPS,TOSA,

3-letter words (41 found)

AIS,AIT,APO,APT,ASP,ATS,IOS,ISO,ITA,ITS,OAT,OIS,OPA,OPS,OPT,PAS,PAT,PIA,PIS,PIT,POA,POI,POS,POT,PSI,PST,SAI,SAP,SAT,SIP,SIT,SOP,SOT,SPA,TAI,TAO,TAP,TAS,TIP,TIS,TOP,

2-letter words (18 found)

AI,AS,AT,IO,IS,IT,OI,OP,OS,PA,PI,PO,SI,SO,ST,TA,TI,TO,

You can make 109 words from patois according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of patois

patois

Etymology

1635, from French patois (“regional dialect or language”).

Pronunciation

Singular
  • (General American) enPR: pătwäʹ, IPA(key): /pæˈtwɑ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pătʹwä, IPA(key): /ˈpætwɑː/
  • Rhymes: -ɑ, -ætwɑː
  • Hyphenation: pat‧ois
Plural
  • (General American) enPR: pătwäzʹ, IPA(key): /pæˈtwɑz/
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pătʹwäz, IPA(key): /ˈpætwɑːz/
  • Rhymes: -ɑz, -ætwɑːz
  • Hyphenation: pat‧ois

Noun

patois (countable and uncountable, plural patois)

  1. A regional dialect of a language (especially French); usually considered substandard.
  2. Any of various French or Occitan dialects spoken in France.
  3. Creole French in the Caribbean (especially in Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago and Haiti).
  4. (Jamaica) Jamaican Patois, a Jamaican creole language primarily based on English and African languages but also has influences from Spanish, Portuguese and Hindi.
  5. Jargon or cant.

Synonyms

  • (Jamaican creole language): Jamaican, Patwa

Translations

Anagrams

  • POSITA, patios, spatio-, taipos

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French patois (“local dialect”), from Old French patois (“incomprehensible speech, rude language”), alteration (due to influence of the suffix -ois in words relating to nationalities and languages) of earlier *patoi, a deverbal of patoier (“to gesticulate, handle clumsily, paw”), from pate (“paw”), from Vulgar Latin *patta (“paw, foot”), from Frankish *patta (“paw, sole of the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *pat-, *paþa- (“to walk, tread, go, step”), of uncertain origin and relation. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pent-/*(s)pat- (“path; to walk”), a variant of *pent-/*pat- (“path; to go”). Cognate with Dutch pat, Low German pedden (“to step, tread”). Related to pad, path.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.twa/

Noun

patois m (plural patois)

  1. patois (French dialect)
  2. patois (any regional dialect)
  3. (Louisiana) saying, maxim, proverb, adage

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • “patois”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • optais, posait, postai

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French patois.

Noun

patois m (invariable)

  1. patois

Further reading

  • patois in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

  • ospita, posati, postai, sopita, spiato

Source: wiktionary.org