peccadillo

1. 1.

   a petty misdeed

   Synonymsindiscretion

   Broadermisbehavior

Other forms of peccadillo

plural

peccadilloes

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about peccadillo

What does peccadillo mean?

peccadillo means "a petty misdeed".

How many syllables are in peccadillo?

peccadillo has 4 syllables: pec-ca-dil-lo. The stress falls on "ca".

What is another word for peccadillo?

Close synonyms include indiscretion. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is peccadillo a common word?

peccadillo is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.