PETIT is a valid Scrabble word — 7 points
Yes. PETIT is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 8 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept PETIT?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 33 / 100
Our own measure of how useful PETIT is to know. It scores 7 from 5 tiles, takes 1 hook, and its letters make up 7.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for PETIT
Front hooks — 0
None.
Back hooks — 1
petiteChecked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF.
How PETIT scores
Face value of the 5 tiles in PETIT, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| p | 1 | 2 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
| t | 2 | 6 |
| i | 1 | 9 |
Drawing exactly these 5 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 23,237.
What does PETIT mean in Scrabble?
adjective
Small or minor, especially in set phrases borrowed from French, such as petit jury or petit larceny.
English borrowed petit whole from French rather than translating it, so the word survives mainly inside fixed legal and social phrases rather than as a free-standing adjective like small. A petit jury is the ordinary trial jury that hears a case and decides guilt, distinguished from the larger grand jury that only decides whether to bring charges, while petit larceny once named theft of a lesser value than grand larceny. Older medical writing likewise used petit mal for a brief, mild epileptic seizure, a term doctors have since replaced with absence seizure.
How PETIT is used
A formal, French-derived word, met chiefly in legal and older medical phrases rather than in everyday speech.
- The defendant faced trial before a petit jury.
- The old statute distinguished petit larceny from grand larceny by value stolen.
- Doctors once diagnosed petit mal in children who briefly lost focus.
- Critics dismissed the shop as petit bourgeois in its tastes.
- The court record still used the term petit jury for the trial panel.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of PETIT and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of PETIT
The 5 tiles of PETIT in a different order — 1 found.
Words starting with PETIT
17 longer words begin with PETIT.
Words with PETIT inside
Showing 24 of 39 words that contain PETIT somewhere in the middle. Words that start with PETIT are listed separately above, so nothing is repeated.
Shorter words from the letters in PETIT
Common questions about PETIT
- Is PETIT valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts PETIT, where it scores 8 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is PETIT worth?
- PETIT is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends.
- What does PETIT mean?
- Small or minor, especially in set phrases borrowed from French, such as petit jury or petit larceny.
- What letters can be added to PETIT?
- PETIT takes 1 hook: 0 in front and 1 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 5 letters of PETIT:
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