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Yes. The word petit is a Scrabble US word. The word petit is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word petit is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

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5-letter words (2 found)

PETIT,PETTI,

4-letter words (3 found)

PIET,TIPT,TITE,

3-letter words (7 found)

PET,PIE,PIT,TET,TIE,TIP,TIT,

2-letter words (6 found)

ET,IT,PE,PI,TE,TI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 19 words from petit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of petit

petit eptit pteit tpeit etpit tepit peitt epitt piett ipett eiptt ieptt ptiet tpiet pitet iptet tipet itpet etipt teipt eitpt ietpt tiept itept petti eptti pteti tpeti etpti tepti petti eptti pteti tpeti etpti tepti pttei tptei pttei tptei ttpei ttpei ettpi tetpi ettpi tetpi ttepi ttepi peitt epitt piett ipett eiptt ieptt petit eptit pteit tpeit etpit tepit pitet iptet ptiet tpiet itpet tipet eitpt ietpt etipt teipt itept tiept ptite tpite pitte iptte tipte itpte pttie tptie pttie tptie ttpie ttpie pitte iptte ptite tpite itpte tipte titpe ittpe ttipe ttipe ittpe titpe etitp teitp eittp iettp tietp itetp ettip tetip ettip tetip tteip tteip eittp iettp etitp teitp itetp tietp titep ittep ttiep ttiep ittep titep

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Definitions and meaning of petit

petit

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɛti/, /pəˈtiː/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈpɛɾət/, /pəˈti/, /pəˈtit/
  • Rhymes: (UK) -ɛti, (UK) -iː, (US) -iːt

Etymology 1

From Middle English petit, from Old French petit, from Latin *pitittus, diminutive of Latin *pit-, possibly from Proto-Celtic *pett- (“part, bit, piece”). Compare also Latin pitinnus (“small”), pitulus. Doublet of petty.

Adjective

petit (comparative more petit, superlative most petit)

  1. (now uncommon, of size) Petite: small, little.
    • 1684 or 1685 February 22, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Westminster-Abbey:
      And by what small, petit Hints does the Mind catch hold of, and recover a vanishing Notion?
  2. Petty, in its various senses:
    1. (obsolete) Few in number.
    2. (now uncommon, of objects) Unimportant; cheap; easily replaced.
    3. (law, of scale) Small, minor.
    4. (now rare) Secondary; lower in rank.
Derived terms
Related terms
  • petite, petty
See also
  • puisne, puny

Noun

petit (plural petits)

  1. (obsolete, usually in the plural) A little schoolboy.
  2. (obsolete, rare) A kind of pigeon.

Etymology 2

From French petit (“brevier”) directly or via German Petit (“brevier”).

Noun

petit (uncountable)

  1. (printing, dated, French and German contexts) Synonym of brevier.

Anagrams

  • Petti

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin pittitus, an expressive creation (with variant forms pitinnus, pitulus, piccinus, pitikkus, etc.). Compare Occitan and French petit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [pəˈtit]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [peˈtit]

Adjective

petit (feminine petita, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petites)

  1. small, little
    Antonym: gros

Derived terms

  • a les petites
  • empetitir
  • petitesa
  • petitó

Further reading

  • “petit” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “petit”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “petit” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “petit” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Finnish

Verb

petit

  1. second-person singular past indicative of pettää

Anagrams

  • petti

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French petit, from Vulgar Latin pittitus (775; compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus). Compare Spanish pequeño.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pə.ti/, /p.ti/, (in liaison) /pə.ti.t‿/, /p.ti.t‿/
  • (Quebec) IPA(key): [p(ə)tsi]
  • (Louisiana) IPA(key): /pti/, /piti/, /ti/

Adjective

petit (feminine petite, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petites, comparative moindre, superlative le moindre)

  1. small
    Antonym: grand
    un petit verre de vin ― a small glass of wine
  2. little
    un petit garçon ― a little boy
  3. petty

Usage notes

Only three French adjectives have an irregular comparative: petit (moindre, but in certain senses only), mauvais (pire) and bon (meilleur).

Noun

petit m (plural petits, feminine petite)

  1. small one (anything that is small)
  2. little one (anything that is little)
  3. little one; child (of humans or other animals)
  4. the young (of a species)

Usage notes

Often contracted, in popular or familiar speech, to p’tit (/pti/).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Louisiana Creole: piti
  • Michif: pchi
  • → Portuguese: petiz
    • → Spanish: petiso

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tit/, [ˈpɛt̪ɪt̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpe.tit/, [ˈpɛːt̪it̪]

Verb

petit

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of petō

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • petyt, petyte, (error) peter

Etymology

From Middle French petit, from Old French petit. See Modern English petit, above. Attested from at least the 13th century, with use in names earlier.

Adjective

petit

  1. small

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French petit.

Adjective

petit m (feminine singular petite, masculine plural petitz, feminine plural petites)

  1. small

Descendants

  • French: petit

Noun

petit m (plural petits, feminine singular petite, feminine plural petites)

  1. something that is small

Occitan

Pronunciation

Adjective

petit m (feminine singular petita, masculine plural petits, feminine plural petitas)

  1. small
    Synonym: pichon
    Antonym: grand

Derived terms

  • petitesa

Further reading

  • Joan de Cantalausa (2006) Diccionari general occitan a partir dels parlars lengadocians‎[1], 2 edition, →ISBN, page 743.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • peti, pitet

Etymology

From Latin *pitittus (compare Latin pitinnus, pitulus), which according to Watkins is of imitative origin.

Adjective

petit m (oblique and nominative feminine singular petite)

  1. small, little
  2. worthless; valueless
  3. poor; of poor quality

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle French: petit
    • French: petit
  • → English: petit, petty
  • → Italian: petitto

References


Source: wiktionary.org