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Definition: Petter |
PetterNoun1. A lover who gently fondles and caresses the loved one; "they are heavy petters". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "petter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
"Petter" is a common misspelling or typo for: patter, pester, Peter, petted, pewter, pitter, potter, putter. |
Crosswords: Petter |
| Non-English Usage: "Petter" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Norwegian (Petter). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Petter fra Ruskøy (1960) | |
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| "Petter" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Petter" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "petter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Petter | Last name | 200 | 33,075 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "petter": Lister-petter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
hegre petter | 194 | petter ronnigen | 2 |
lister petter | 38 | hegre petter portfolio | 2 |
petter | 29 | erotic hegre petter photography | 2 |
archive hegre petter | 17 | anders petter | 2 |
petter solberg | 15 | lister petter.com | 2 |
nils petter molvaer | 13 | hegre petter photography | 2 |
petter ronningen | 11 | north petter | 2 |
gallery hegre petter | 9 | hegre.no petter | 2 |
hegre luba petter | 8 | hegre petter wife | 2 |
luba petter | 5 | harry petter | 2 |
dass petter | 4 | art hegre petter | 2 |
petter supply | 4 | hegre model petter | 2 |
petter rap | 3 | fagerhaug john petter | 2 |
hegre petter photo | 3 | petter texter | 2 |
pan petter | 3 | engine lister petter | 2 |
nils petter sundgren | 3 | jag och petter | 2 |
diesel petter | 3 | lyrics petter | 2 |
petter herge | 2 | petter visted | 2 |
diesel engine petter | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "petter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | χαϊδεύων (mollycoddler, pamperer), Θωπευτήσ. (various references) | ||||
Norwegian | petter. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | etterpay | ||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "petter": petters. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "petter" (pronounced pe"ter) |
| 3 | -e" t er | better, bettor, debtor, fetter, Fretter, getter, letter, Netter, setter, sweater, wetter. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-p-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: peter. | |
-2 letters: peer, pert, pree, rete, tree, tret. | |
-3 letters: ere, pee, per, pet, ree, rep, ret, tee, tet. | |
-4 letters: er, et, pe, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-p-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: pertest, petters, pettier, pretest, pretext, proette, tempter, treetop. | |
+2 letters: attemper, entrepot, operetta, pattered, patterer, peartest, pottered, potterer, pretaste, preterit, pretests, pretexts, pretreat, prettied, prettier, pretties, proettes, puttered, putterer, repotted, teleport, tempters, tephrite, treetops, upsetter. | |
+3 letters: attempers, bespatter, crepitate, entrepots, extirpate, hypertext, impetrate, intercept, interpret, operettas, pargetted, patienter, patterers, patterned, penetrant, penetrate, permitted, permittee, permitter, pertinent, pinsetter, pirouette, poetaster, potometer, potterers, potteries, prebattle, prepotent, pretasted, pretastes, preterite, preterits, pretermit, pretested, pretexted, pretreats, prettiest, protected, protested, protester, putterers, reattempt, repattern, repentant, replotted, respotted, saltpeter, spattered, sputtered, sputterer, superette, teleports, temperate, temptress, tephrites, trumpeted, trumpeter, typewrite, typewrote, upsetters. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 65 74 74 65 72 |
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