pit-a-pat

Questions about pit-a-pat

What does pit-a-pat mean?

pit-a-pat means "as of footsteps". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pit-a-pat?

pit-a-pat has 3 syllables and divides as pi-t-a--pat under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pit-a-pat?

Close synonyms include pitty-patty, pitty-pat, pitter-patter, pitty-patty, pitty-pat. 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 pit-a-pat a common word?

pit-a-pat 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pit-a-pat come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.