Home › Words › P › purplettepurplettepurplette means A small specialty onion with burgundy skin.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, purplette ranks #2,710 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom purple + -ette (diminutive suffix).nounA small specialty onion with burgundy skin.A purple-haired person, especially a woman.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).