pit-a-pat
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.95 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
Representing a series of quick tapping sounds.
adj
Example Sentences
- "Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, the bullets kept falling and stirring up little puffs of dust on the open ground in front of the zeriba."
- "“Pit-a-pat! Pit-a-pat!”—On go the thousands of feet; on to the movie and on to the dance; on to the office, the club and the bank."
- "Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, / He danced on the whiskery nose."
- "“Only a scraping of shoes on the mat? / “Anything like the sound of a rat / “Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!”"
- "The chesnut ringlets were speedily twitched from the confining paper, her Sunday hat, gown, and neckerchief bustled on in a moment, and wondering what he would say, and how she should feel and behave on the trying occasion, she descended with a pit-a-pat heart, and a cheek covered with burning blushes."
- "The pit-a-pat heart of a susceptible girl of sixteen, tells her that a gentleman is a tall fellow with a fine military cap on his head; […]"
Etymology
Inflected Forms
pit a pat (alternative)
pitapat (alternative)
pit-pat (alternative)
pitpat (alternative)
pitter-pat (alternative)
pitterpat (alternative)
pit-a-pats (present, singular)
pit-a-patting (participle, present)
pit-a-patted (participle, past)
pit-a-patted (past)
pit-a-pats (plural)