Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

petty knife

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.91 in modern English

Syllables: pet-ty knife
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A Japanese paring knife.

Etymology

From petty + knife, Derived from Japanese ペティナイフ, a compound of ペティ (unknown, perhaps from French petit) + ナイフ (from English knife).

Origin

Source language: Japanese

Word Breakdown

Root: ペティナイフ, petit, knife

Inflected Forms

petty knives (plural)

Questions

What does petty knife mean?: A Japanese paring knife.
Where does petty knife come from?: It is traced to Japanese.

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