Little

Expressions using "little": a little ♦ a little bird told me ♦ a little bit ♦ a little bit of ♦ a little more ♦ a little of ♦ a little slam ♦ a little too small ♦ a little while ♦ a little while ago ♦ a modest little cottage ♦ after a little ♦ as little as ♦ battle of Little Bighorn ♦ battle of the Little Bighorn ♦ be a little late ♦ be of little avail ♦ be of little moment ♦ By little and little ♦ chat a little ♦ chicken Little ♦ close a little ♦ come to little ♦ count for little ♦ delay a little ♦ do a little job ♦ even a little ♦ have a little patience ♦ he has his little peculiarities ♦ her little ones ♦ however little ♦ in a little while ♦ it makes little difference ♦ it matters little ♦ it recks little ♦ just a little ♦ little as ♦ little auk ♦ little baby ♦ little bar ♦ little bare monkey ♦ little barley ♦ little bear ♦ little Bighorn ♦ little Bighorn River ♦ little bit ♦ little black ant ♦ little blighter ♦ little blue heron ♦ little bluebill ♦ little boat ♦ little box ♦ little boy ♦ little brother ♦ little brown bat ♦ little brown myotis ♦ little brush ♦ little bustard ♦ little by little ♦ Little Canada ♦ little cash ♦ Little cassino ♦ Little Cedar ♦ Little chief ♦ little chief hare ♦ Little Chute ♦ little club moss ♦ little clubmoss ♦ Little Compton ♦ Little Cottonwood Creek Valley ♦ little creature ♦ Little Creek ♦ little cross ♦ little curly poll ♦ little darling ♦ Little Deer Isle ♦ little demon ♦ little devil ♦ little dictionary ♦ Little Dipper ♦ little Dog ♦ little dot ♦ Little Eagle ♦ little ebony spleenwort ♦ little egg ♦ little egret ♦ Little Elm ♦ little end ♦ Little Englander ♦ Little Englandism ♦ Little Falls ♦ little falls ny ♦ little fellow ♦ Little Ferry ♦ little finger ♦ Little Flock ♦ little flower ♦ little folks ♦ little fool ♦ Little Genesee ♦ little girl. Additional references.

Beginning with "little": little-aired, little-altered, little-and-large, little-associations, little-bit-of, little-bit-of-bread-and-no-cheeeeese, little-black, little-boy, little-boy-lost, little-changed, little-crested, little-developed, Little-ease, little-educated, little-endian, Little-englandism, little-explored, little-extra, little-frequented, little-girl, little-girl-lost, little-head snakeweed, little-heard-of, little-heralded, little-known, little-knowns, little-leaf fig, little-league team, little-light, little-loved, little-magazine, little-miss-never-forgets, Little-neck clam, little-noted, little-noticed, little-old-lady, little-or, little-practised, little-publicised, little-publicized, little-remembered, little-researched, little-shown, little-studied, little-taught, little-tested, little-tried, little-un, little-'un, little-understood, little-uns, little-used, little-visited.

Ending with "little": a-little, be-little, brooke-little, brook-little, Do-little, not-so-little, right-little, step-little, the-little, tight-little, tiny-little.

Containing "little": cheery-little-girl, poor-little-baby, pretty-little-feather-brained-only-good-for-one-thing-bimbo-know-nothing-woman's-head, rich-little-poor-girl, silly-little-me-late-again-ish, too-little-seen, you-and-me-having-a-little-joke-together.

Afrikaans

min, klein (diminutive, small). (various references)

Albanian

vogël (small), shpirtvogël (small minded, turnback), pothuaj aspak, paksa (faintly, lightly, vaguely), pak (briefly, dab, few, just, just a little, narrowly, rather, slightly, some, somewhat, to some extent), një çikë (bit, crumb, dab, pinch, soupcon), mendjengushtë (hidebound, illiberal, insular, low-minded, narrow minded, parochial, petty), i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, petty, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i vocërr (petty, puny, tiny, wee), i shkurtër (brief, curt, fleeting, momentary, near, recapitulatory, scrubby, short, stubby, terse, transitory), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, picayune, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فترة قصيرة (awhile, piece), ‏متواضع (humble, inconsiderable, insignificant, modest, negligible, slight, small, trivial, unassuming, unpretentious), ‏مسافة قصيرة, ‏نادرا (rarely, scarcely, seldom), ‏قليل (few, scarce, slight, small), ‏غيض (slight), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏ضعيف (atonic, cold, crazy, deficient, delicate, dim, emaciated, enervate, faint, feckless, feeble, flabby, flagging, fragile, frail, haggard, helpless, impotent, inaudible, infirm, invertebrate, lame, languid, languorous, lank, lean, limp, low, lower, nerveless, pale, powered, powerless, puny, rickety, run down, scant, scrawny, slender, slight, slim, small, soft, softy, streaked, supine, tenuous, thin, thready, toothless, unsubstantial, wan, weak, weakened, weakling, weakly, wimp, wishy washy), ‏ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, lowbrow, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), ‏صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, petty, remote, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), ‏القليل (modicum, small), ‏الصغير (small, whipper-snapper, youngling), ‏الشيء الصغير (dwarf), ‏بسيطة (earth, world), ‏بعض (any, few, several, some, somewhat). (various references)

Basque

tiki, pixka. (various references)

Breton

tammig (little bit). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съвсем малко, къс (brief, cob, fraction, fragment, fritter, jimp, length, morsel, patch, piece, portion, scrimpy, short, skimpy, slip, slipping), кратък (brief, compact, concise, curt, horary, near, short, swift, transient, transitory), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), никак (no, nohow, none, not by a long sight, nothing), малък (bijou, light, measurable, paltry, piccolo, pocket, remote, slight, slim, small, tiddly, toy, venial, young), малко (any, awhile, bit, few, remotely, several, slightly, some, somewhat, sort of), почти никак, дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, small, small minded, trivial), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, picayune, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

Catalan

poc (rather, some, somewhat, to some extent). (various references)

Chinese 

微小 (small), 少许, 少 (few, lack, young). (various references)

Czech

malý (faint, minor, pokey, remote, scant, short, slender, small, stingy, tight, tiny, young). (various references)

Danish

lille (diminutive, small). (various references)

Dutch

klein (diminutive, short, slight, small, tiny), min (affection, diminutive, fewer, less, love, minus, small), luttel (diminutive, small), karig (diminutive, in short supply, scanty, scarce, small), gering (diminutive, small). (various references)

Esperanto

malmulte da, malmulta, malgranda (diminutive, small). (various references)

Estonian

vähe. (various references)

Faeroese

lítil (small). (various references)

Farsi 

کوتاه (Concise, Dumpy, Laconic, Low, Miniature, Punch, Short, Stocky, Stunt, Succinct, Transient), درخوربچگی , اندک (Lean, Light, Low, Margin, Modicum, Paucity, Pinch, Scant, Scantling, Scarce, Scrimp, Scruple, Skimpy, Slight, Whit), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Petty, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain), خرد (Inconsiderable, Intellect, Minuscule, Part, Petty, Reason, Retail, Tiny, Wisdom), خورده , بچگانه (Childlike, Chilish, Infantile, Puerile), قدکوتاه (Dwarf, Puny, Pygmy), پست (Abacinate, Abject, Cheap, Common, Currish, Despicable, Earthborn, Humble, Infamous, Inferior, Lily, Mail, Menial, Peevish, Poor, Runty, Ungenerous, Venal, Vile, Villain, Villainous, Vulgar, Wretch, Wretched), کوچک (Bantam, Dinky, Miniature, Minuscule, Minute, Petty, Pocket, Puny, Runty, Short, Small, Teeny, Thumbnail, Weeny), کم (Infrequent, Junior, Light, Low, Marginal, Rare, Remote, Scant, Scanty, Scarce, Scrimpy, Skimp, Slender, Slight, Small), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Straw, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), مختصر (Compendium, Concise, Epitome, Short, Succinct, Sum, Summary, Synopsis, Terse), معدود (Paucity, Poor, Scant), محقر (Humble, Small, Unpretentious), حقیر (Runty, Slight). (various references)

Finnish

vähän (a bit, a little, a trifle, few, some). (various references)

Flemish

beetje. (various references)

French

petit, peu (a littlebit, little bit), peu de. (various references)

French Canadian

peu. (various references)

Frisian

lyts (small). (various references)

Galician

pouco (bit). (various references)

German

wenig (a little, few, less, little (less, not much, poco, scant, small, sparse), klein (diminutive, dinky, humble, lesser, little (less, low, lower, lower case, lowly, mini, miniature, modest, ordinary, petty, puny, quick, runty, short, slight, small, small-sized, thin), gering (humble, insubstantial, low, minor, modest, poor, scant, short, slender, slight, slim, small). (various references)

Greek 

λίγο (a dash of, a touch of, slightly). (various references)

Guarani

rokemíta (we shall sleep a little bit), roipotami (we want a little bit), roguatami (we walk a little bit), michimínte (only a little bit), mboyvemi (a little bit before), mbeguemive (a little bit more slowly), jahami (we shall go a little bit), amba'apomi (I work a little bit), añe'êkuaa (I speak only a little bit), ñasêmína (let's leave a little bit). (various references)

Haitian Creole

ti (small), piti. (various references)

Hawaiian

vogël (small). (various references)

Hebrew 

מועט (exiguous, few, scanty, skimpy, small, triffle), מעט (few, less, mite, slightly, some, sprinkling), קטן (minor, petite, small, small boy), קט (small, tiny), קצת (a few, slightly, some, somewhat, trifle). (various references)

Hungarian

kis (baby elephant, bonny, breaker, brownie, combo, drab, dribblet, driblet, ducky, jumper, low, petit, pipsqueak, pygmy, ringlet, shakeout, small, tattler), kicsi (dinky, little one, low, minor, mite, petite, pint-sized, potty, puny, pygmy, scrimp, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, vest pocket). (various references)

Icelandic

litla, lítill (small), smár (small). (various references)

Indonesian

sedikit (bit, breath, dash, dribblet, exiguous), kecil (miniature, minute, small, tiny), dikit (small). (various references)

Irish

beag (diminutive, small). (various references)

Italian

piccolo (brief, child, cub, diminutive, little one, low, mean, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, trifling, young). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

少し (few, little while, short distance, small quantity, something). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すこし (few, little while, short distance, small quantity, something), リトル , きんしょう (few, gold general, insignificant, proximity), さしょう (false statement, few, misrepresentation, slight, trifling, visa), かしょう (approval, burn, Chinese merchants abroad, few, praise, receptacle, riverbed, scald, scanty, singing, song, temporary name, too few, too small, undeserved praise), けいび (defense, guard, insignificant, policing, security, slight), ちっちゃい (tiny, wee), ちいさい (small, tiny), ちいさ (small, tiny). (various references)

Korean 

조금 (bit, bits). (various references)

Lombard

a pòcch a pòcch (gradually, little by little). (various references)

Luganda

lutono. (various references)

Luxembourgish

bësse. (various references)

Malay

kecil (small). (various references)

Manx

myn- (diminutive, elaborate, exhaustive, filings, lesser, minute, niggling, petty, prefix diminutive, trifling), loo (fewer, least; affidavit, littler, oath, swear, swearing), kuse veg (few), cooid y veggan, beggan (a few, faintly, partly, slightly, small piece, somewhat). (various references)

Maya

thuup (little finger). (various references)

Norwegian

litt. (various references)

Occitan

pichon. (various references)

Papiamen

chikitu (small), chikito (small), chikí (small). (various references)

Pig Latin

ittlelay.(various references)

Polish

mały (small). (various references)

Portuguese

pouco (little quantity, wispy), pequeno (bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, hidebound, kiddy, low, minor, one-horse, petty, poky, pony, potty, puny, pygmean, short, slender, small, smalltime, sonny, tiny). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

pouco. (various references)

Quechua

tumpallataraq (only a little so far), tumpa (a little). (various references)

Romanian

mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, low, mincing, minor, narrow, petty, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young). (various references)

Russian 

уменьшенный (diminished, pony-size, reduced, underpriced), короткое время, короткий (brief, short, small, stubbly), кое-что (aught), немногое, немного небольшой, незначительный (exiguous, imperceptible, importless, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nonsignificant, of no account, of small account, outside, paltry, poky, puny, pygmy, remote, slight, small time, small-time, tenuous, trivial), мелочный (hairsplitting, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, petty, picayune, small minded, small-minded), малый (bloke, chap, cove, exiguous, fellow, guy, Johnny, lesser, petit), мало, маленький (diminutive, elvish, petite, pimping, pint-sized, pony, puisne, puny, small, thumb-nail). (various references)

Scottish

beag (all but, little : ach beag, small). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sićušan (lilliputian, measly, midget, minute, pimping, tiny, weeny), neznatan (inconsiderable, insignificant, negligible, twopenny-halfpenny, unsubstantial), malo (few, kind of, little: a little, slightly, small, some, somewhat), mali (lorikeet, low, money spinner, small), malen (small), mala količina (dab, dash, lick, modicum, sprinkling, tittle, trace). (various references)

Slovene

delno. (various references)

Somali

yar (a little), xoogaa (a little). (various references)

Sotho

hanyane (a little bit). (various references)

Spanish

poco (a fat lot, a little, bit, extreme, lesser, little bit, rather, shallow, short, some, somewhat, thin, to some extend, to some extent), pequeño (baby, child, diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, Juniper, low, lower, minute, narrow, petty, short, skimpy, slight, small, undersized), chico (bairn, boy, chap, child, fellow, infant, junior, kid, lad, laddie, Matey, small). (various references)

Sranan

pikin (bairn, child, infant, small). (various references)

Swahili

-dogo (small), dogo (diminutive, small). (various references)

Swedish

liten (off, one horse, petty, short, slight, slim, small, tiddley, tiddly, tiny, young), litet (a few, a little, rather, small, some), ringa (call, chime, clang, dial, exiguous, humble, insubstantial, low, lowly, modest, peal, petty, ring, scant, scanty, slight, small, telephone, toll, trifling), lilla (small), föga (hardly, not exactly). (various references)

Tagalog

maliít (small). (various references)

Tahitian

ma'a. (various references)

Tswana

senyenyane (little bit), nyenyane (little bit). (various references)

Turkish

az (a bit, contracted, few, hypo-, inconsiderable, insufficient, meager, meagre, poco, poor, scrimp, scrimpy, seldom, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, small, spare, stingy, under). (various references)

Turkmen 

uюak (fine, small), ownuk, az (few). (various references)

Ukrainian

невелика кількість (a bit, handful, mouthful, scantling, smack, trifle), невеликий (bantam, moderate, petty, young), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, petty, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial), небагато (a few, few, only a few, some few, somewhat), маленький (baby, minikin, pony, young), зовсім не (no, none), дрібний (bantam, fractional, hair splitting, minute, negligible, niggling, picayune, piddling, potty, sectarian, small, small minded, tin-pot). (various references)

Vietnamese 

một quâng ngắn với quy mô nhỏ dần dần, một chút không một chút nào, một ít một thời gian ngắn, không nhiều một chút, chẳng bao nhiêu, ít (dash, scant, scanty, shoestring, sip). (various references)

Welsh

ychydig (few, rather, some, somewhat), bychan (diminutive, small), bach (bend, corner, diminutive, hinge, hook, nook, small). (various references)

Wolof

tuuti (a little). (various references)

Xhosa

kancinci (A little bit, Very soft/a little bit). (various references)

Yucatec

chichan (small), chan (small). (various references)

Zulu

-ncane (small). (various references)

oligos. (various references)

aliquantulus, arvinam, arvinulis, Athene noctua, breve, brevem, breves, brevi, brevis, casula, casulam, casulis, catelli, catenulas, dextraliola, Euthynnus alletteratus, Euthynnus quadripunctatus, Glycymeris glycymeris, Larus minutus, libello, libellum, loculo, loculos, loculum, mansiunculas, minima, minimae, minime, minimis, minimo, minimum, minimus, minor, minora, minore, minorem, minores, minori, minoribus, minoris, minus, modica, modice, modici, modicis, modico, modicum, modicumque, modicus, mulierculas, parui, parum minus minime, parva, parvae, parvam, parvas, parvi, parvis, parvo, parvos, parvum, parvus, parvus minor minimus, pauca, paucae, paucas, pauci, pauciores, paucioribus, paucis, paucissimo, paucissimos, paucorum, paucos, paule, pauli, paulo, paululum, paulum, paulus, pauxillum, Pectunculus glycymeris, pharue, pinnacula, pinnaculis, pinnaculum, Plautus alle, Plotus alle, pusillis, quantulum, quantumcumque, Raja erinacea, RM:muetta pitschna, RM:pestgarel pitschen, RM:tschuetta da la mort, Sterna albifrons, Thynnus thonina, Thynnus thunina, Thynnus thunnina, tripoli. (various references)

fea, hwon, lyt, lytel. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "little": littleneck, littlenecks, littleness, littlenesses, littler, littles, littlest. (additional references)

Words ending with "little": belittle. (additional references)

Words containing "little": belittled, belittlement, belittlements, belittler, belittlers, belittles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Little" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: alittle, iittle, leettle, Leitstelle, lentle, Letley, Lettie, Lhiattee, liddle, lintle, Listel, litel, litil, Litla, litle, litlle, Litte, littel, littil, Littlehey, little'n, littles, littlke, littly, littre, lottle, luitel, Lutley, lytles, lyttel, Lyttles, lyttyl, lyttyll, pittle, vittle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: title.

-2 letters: lilt, lite, tell, tile, till, tilt.

-3 letters: ell, ill, lei, let, lie, lit, tel, tet, tie, til.

-4 letters: el, et, it, li, ti.

+1 letter: littler, littles, tillite.

+2 letters: belittle, littlest, stillest, tillites, tiltable.

+3 letters: belittled, belittler, belittles, brittlely, intellect, intertill, lethality, multiplet, paillette, rillettes, satellite, stilliest, stiltedly, tactilely, tallithes, titillate.

+4 letters: alliterate, belittlers, belittling, belletrist, cantillate, cavalletti, distillate, epiglottal, gillnetted, gillnetter, illiterate, illustrate, intellects, intertills, literalist, literality, literately, littleneck, littleness, multiplets, outtelling, paillettes, pastellist, pistillate, potentilla, rototilled, rototiller, satellites, stealthily, thetically, titillated, titillates, tortellini, trilateral, triliteral, tripletail, ultimately.