petite

Other forms of petite

plural

petites·

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 petite

What does petite mean?

petite means "a garment size for short or slender women". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in petite?

petite has 2 syllables: pe-tite. The stress falls on "tite". In IPA it is /pəˈtit/.

What is another word for petite?

Close synonyms include bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, tiny. 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 petite a common word?

petite is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with petite?

1 word rhymes with petite. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.