Petty

Expressions using "petty": chief petty officer ♦ Fleet Chief Petty Officer ♦ Master Chief Petty Officer ♦ of petty owners ♦ petty annoyances ♦ petty apartheid ♦ petty averages ♦ petty bank ♦ petty bourgeois ♦ petty bourgeoisie ♦ petty bourgois ♦ petty business ♦ petty cash ♦ petty cash book ♦ petty cash fund ♦ petty constable ♦ petty crime ♦ petty criminal ♦ petty criticism ♦ petty details ♦ petty expenditure ♦ petty expense ♦ petty expenses ♦ petty jobs ♦ petty juror ♦ petty jury ♦ petty larceny ♦ petty little matter ♦ petty monarch ♦ petty morel ♦ petty mullein ♦ petty nobility ♦ petty offence ♦ petty officer ♦ Petty Officer First Class ♦ Petty Officer Second Class ♦ Petty Officer Third Class ♦ petty official ♦ petty person ♦ petty politician ♦ petty princes ♦ petty sessions ♦ petty spurge ♦ petty theft ♦ petty thief ♦ petty thieving ♦ petty tyrant ♦ petty wares ♦ petty whin ♦ Senior Chief Petty Officer. Additional references.

Beginning with "petty": petty-bag, petty-bourgeois, petty-bourgeoisie, petty-commodity, petty-criminal, Petty-fitzmaurice, petty-fogging, petty-minded, petty-minded person, petty-mindedness, petty-officer first class.

Ending with "petty": ex-petty.

Albanian

zemërngushtë (mean, narrow, ungenerous), mendjengushtë (hidebound, illiberal, insular, little, low-minded, narrow minded, parochial), i vogël (baby, diminutive, exiguous, Ling, little, one horse, paltry, peripheral, petit, pimping, pocket-size, poky, reckling, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, small, trivial, undersized), i vocërr (little, puny, tiny, wee), i ulët (base, contemptible, dark, deep, down, gentle, give away, humble, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, low lying, lowly, mean, modest, nasty, nefarious, primary, rascally, scrubby, scurvy, shoddy, subdued, vile, villainous, vulgar), i parëndësishëm (dispensable, exiguous, immaterial, inconsequential, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, light, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory, one horse, paltry, piddling, puny, small, small time, tenuous, tin, trivial, unessential, unimportant), i papërfillshëm (hole-in-the-wall, inconsiderable, naught, negligible, niggling, pettifogging, potty, trifling), i ngushtë (acute, bigheaded, close, close-grained, hard up, incapacious, intimate, narrow, narrow minded, near, one track, one-ideaed, particularistic, poky, provincial, small, small minded, Strait, tight). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حقير (abject, base, beggarly, blackguardly, cheap, despicable, dingy, dirty, frowzy, grubby, ignoble, inferior, insignificant, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, menial, niggling, paltry, pettifogger, pip squeak, pitiable, pitiful, poor, popinjay, rotten, scabby, scaly, scoundrelly, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, servile, shabby, shoddy, slavish, slim, slushy, small minded, snide, sod, squalid, swine, tacky, trifling, ungracious, unworthy, varmint, vile, villainous, worthless, wretched), ‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, 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), ‏ضيق الأفق (insular, narrow minded, sectarian, small minded), ‏صغير (baby, diminutive, infinitesimal, little, lower case, minuscule, minute, niggling, remote, short, small, teeny, tiny, tiny bit, wee, young), ‏ثانوي (bye, inferior, insignificant, marginal, minor, secondary, side, sub, unimportant), ‏بسيط (attic, chaste, crude, down to earth, elementary, homely, honest, innocent, low-browed, lowly, mere, modest, naive, natural, pastoral, plain, primitive, provincial, rustic, silly, simple, simple minded, sparing, straightforward, unaffected, unpretentious, unsophisticated, unvarnished, with distortion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

с малък ранг, в малък мащаб (small-scale), незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, 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), маловажен (footling, futile, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, last, light, minor, nugatory, peddling, pettifogging, puerile, side, small time, trifling, two-by-four, unimportant), дребнав (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, little, mean, mouldy, niggling, niminy-piminy, pernickety, pettifogging, small, small minded, trivial), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, 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)

Chinese 

狭窄 (Narrow, stenosis), 細小 (wee), 佌 (to do, to make, to regard as, to takefor, wretched), 小氣 (narrow, stingy). (various references)

Czech

nepatrný (derisory, exiguous, imperceptible, insignificant, minor, minute, negligible, scant, scanty, slight, slim, small, thin, trifling), menší (less, minor, smaller), drobný (close, diminutive, fine, minor, small, tiny). (various references)

Danish

underofficer (noncom, non-commissioned officer), overenskomst om mindre skader (petty-claims agreement, slight damage agreement), mindre skade (petty claim), lille kasse (petty cash, petty cash fund), gaffelvortemælk (petty spurge), foerste baadsmand (chief petty officier), bikasse (petty cash, petty cash fund), baadsmand (boatman, petty officier). (various references)

Dutch

kleingeestig (small-minded), benepen (afraid, in distress, small-minded, timid). (various references)

Esperanto

etspirita (small-minded). (various references)

Farsi 

فرعی (Accessory, Adjunct, Ancillary, By, Bye, Derivative, Extraneous, Inferior, Secondary, Sideway, Subordinate, Subsidiary, Tributary), کوچک (Bantam, Dinky, Little, Miniature, Minuscule, Minute, Pocket, Puny, Runty, Short, Small, Teeny, Thumbnail, Weeny), غیرقابل ملاحظه (Unconsidered), خرد (Inconsiderable, Intellect, Little, Minuscule, Part, Reason, Retail, Tiny, Wisdom), جزءی (Immaterial, Imperceptible, Inappreciative, Inconsiderable, Inconspicuous, Little, Minuscule, Minute, Negligible, Nip, Nominal, Paltry, Partial, Peppercorn, Piddling, Remote, Retail, Rush, Small, Snatch, Trivial, Vain). (various references)

Finnish

poroporvarillinen (petty bourgeois), näpistys (larceny, petty theft), näpistely (petty larceny, pilfering), kolmisädetyräkki (petty spurge), käteiskassa (petty cash, petty cash fund), huijari (cheat, swindler), helppoheikki (cheapjack), aliupseeri (non-commissioned officer, petty officer), alipäällystö (non-commissioned officers, petty officers). (various references)

French

petit, simple, secondaire, sans importance, insignifiant (pettifogging), étroite. (various references)

German

klein (diminutive, dinky, humble, lesser, little, little (less, low, lower, lower case, lowly, mini, miniature, modest, ordinary, puny, quick, runty, short, slight, small, small-sized, thin), unbedeutend (fractional, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconsiderably, insignificant, minimal, minor, negligible, nonsignificant, obscure, of no account, petit, pettily, piddling, trifling, trivial, trivially, unimportant). (various references)

Greek 

μικρόσ (little, minor, petit, piccaroon, piddling, puny, scrimp, short, slight, small), μικροπρεπήσ (mean, small), μικροπρεπής (fussy), μηδαμινόσ (insignificant, minimal, nugatory, null and void, paltry, piccaroon, trifling, trivial), τιποτένιοσ (chaffy, measly, paltry, piddling, scamp, scummy, trashy, trifling, two-penny, worthless). (various references)

Hebrew 

קל ערך (light weight, trifling, trivial), קט� ו� י (minute, niggling, small, small minded, tiny, trivial), פשוט (common, elementary, lowly, matter of fact, neat, obvious, ordinary, plain, simple, simplification, simply, straightforward, unvarnished), טריביאלי (trivial). (various references)

Hungarian

piti (jerkwater, small-time, to piddle), bagatell (fillip, trifle). (various references)

Indonesian

picik (hide bound), remeh, cupat (bigoted, insufficient, shortsighted, skimpy). (various references)

Italian

piccolo (brief, child, cub, diminutive, little, little one, low, mean, short, skimpy, slight, small, tiny, trifling, young), subalterno (inferior, subaltern, subordinate, underling, understrapper), minuto (delicate, detailed, fine, frail, minute, slight, small, tiny), minore (inferior, junior, less, lesser, lower, lowest, minor, shorter, smaller, smallest, younger, youngest), meschino (base, beggarly, currish, mean, measly, miserable, narrow, paltry, poor, scanty, shabby, small minded, sordid, sorry, wretched), insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, picayune, piddling, potty, slight, trifling, trivial). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

群小 (minor, trifling), ずる賢い (gap, hastily, impetuously, rapidly, slippage, sly, small-minded, stingy, to badger, to slide, to slip off), 卑小 (trifling). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぐ�"しょう (army commander, minor, trifling), ひしょう (flight, flying, grief, soaring, spending, this wretch, trifling, you wretch), せ�"い (small-minded, stingy). (various references)

Korean 

비소한. (various references)

Manx

myn- (diminutive, elaborate, exhaustive, filings, lesser, little, minute, niggling, prefix diminutive, trifling). (various references)

Pig Latin

ettypay.(various references)

Portuguese

pequeno (bantam, diminutive, dinky, dwarfish, hidebound, kiddy, little, low, minor, one-horse, poky, pony, potty, puny, pygmean, short, slender, small, smalltime, sonny, tiny), trivial (banal, blanket, bread and butter, common, commonplace, course, dismal, inelaborate, light, pedestrian, piddling, platitudinarian, platitudinous, potty, prosy, puerile, quotidian, slight, small, threadbare, trifling, trite, trivial, unimportant, uninspired, vulgar), sem importância (insignificant, peddling, trifling, unessential, unimportant, weightless), insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negligible, one-horse, paltry, picayune, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy). (various references)

Romanian

neînsemnat (cheap, fractional, immaterial, inconsequent, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, irrelevant, light, little, minor, modest, negligeable, negligible, paltry, peddling, piddling, piffling, slender, slight, small, trifling, trivial), mic (Chitty, chopping, contemptible, dwarfish, exiguous, little, low, mincing, minor, narrow, pimping, poky, pony, poor, puny, scrubby, shallow, shoe string, short, slender, slight, small, undersized, weak, wee, young), meschin (base, basely, base-spirited, costive, hen-hearted, illiberal, little, low down, mean, mercantile, nasty, paltrily, paltry, peddling, pettily, shabby, small, sneaky, sordid, stingy, trivial), mãrunt (chopping, incidental, light, loose, mincing, paltry, peddling, piffling, small, tiny, trifling). (various references)

Russian 

мелкий;мелочный, мелкий (dusty, fine, minute, paltry, peanut politician, pettifogging, piddling, potty, shallow, shoal, small minded, small time, small-time, two-by-four), мелочный (hairsplitting, little, meticulous, mingy, niggling, peddling, penny-wise, picayune, small minded, small-minded), маловажный (insignificant). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sitničav (hairsplitting, pedantic, philistine, small minded), sitan (minute, piddling, small, trifling, trivial, wee). (various references)

Spanish

mezquino (beggarly, cheap, hard-fisted, mean, measly, miserable, paltry, penurious, petty-minded, scabby, scaly, shabby, skimpy, small minded, small-minded). (various references)

Swedish

småsint (petty-minded, small minded), liten (little, off, one horse, short, slight, slim, small, tiddley, tiddly, tiny, young), bagatellartad (trivial). (various references)

Turkish

ufak tefek (bantam, footling, pint-size, pint-sized, slender, small), ufak (little, micro-, peddling, petit, scrubby, small, tiddly), küçük (baby, bantam, child, fiddling, inconsiderable, infant, infra-, junior, kid, little, micro-, mini, mini-, minor, minuscule, nano-, not healthy, one horse, paltry, peanut, petit, piddling, poky, remote, slight, small, snug, tiddly, trifling, trivial, undersized, young, younger), dar kafalı (borne), aşağılık (abject, base, baseness, contemptible, dirty, groveling, grovelling, ignoble, ignominious, inferiority, low down, lowness, mean, no class, no good, pettiness, rascally, reptilian, scabby, scurvy, slavish, snotty, sordid, tinpot, unutterable, unworthy, vile, wicked, wormy), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, picayune, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

Turkmen 

ownukзyl (trifling), яьzleя (small, superficial), яalpak (shallow). (various references)

Ukrainian

вузький (confined, cramp, limited, narrow, one track, one-ideaed, small minded, stuffy, suburban), невеликий (bantam, little, moderate, young), незначний (bare, exiguous, imponderable, inconsiderable, inessential, insignificant, little, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nugacious, off, one horse, outside, poor, potty, puny, pygmy, slender, slight, small, trivial). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vụn vặt (immaterial, inconsequential, nugatory, pettifogging), tiểu, tầm thường nhỏ nhen, nhỏ mọn (fiddling, flimsy, mingy, piffling, potty), lặt vặt (fiddle-faddle, fiddling, odd, peddling, sundry), hạ (low), bậc dưới. (various references)

Welsh

pitw (paltry, puny), ma+n (fine, small), crach (scabby). (various references)

angusta, angustam, angusti, angustiorem, angusto, angustos, angustum, angustus, Euphorbia peplus L., exigua, exigui, exiguo, exiguum, minuta, minutis, minutum, parvula, parvulam, parvulas, parvuli, parvulis, parvulo, parvulorum, parvulos, parvulum, parvulus, pusilla, pusillae, pusilli, pusillis, pusillo, pusillorum, pusillos, pusillum, pusillus. (various references)

petit. (various references)

Misspellings

"Petty" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: getty, hetty, letty, metty, patti, pattie, pattys, peetie, pelty, penti, Pentti, penty, perthy, perti, pertty, perty, pesty, Petey, pethy, peti, petie, Petitti, petry, pett, pette, pettey, petti, pettie, petto, pettys, petu, pety, pitty, pty, Pyett, pyttyll, yetty. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: type, yett.

-2 letters: pet, pye, tet, tye, yep, yet.

-3 letters: et, pe, ye.

+1 letter: pretty.

+2 letters: pettily, pottery, tintype, typeset, typiest.

+3 letters: antetype, antitype, autotype, patently, pettedly, potently, prettify, prettily, tapestry, tepidity, tintypes, tippytoe, topotype, typecast, typesets, unpretty.

+4 letters: antetypes, antitypes, asymptote, autotypes, hypertext, lectotype, nymphette, optometry, paternity, patiently, pettishly, posterity, prettying, prettyish, prototype, puttyless, puttylike, spluttery, stenotype, stenotypy, telepathy, tippytoed, tippytoes, topotypes, typecasts, typestyle, typewrite, typewrote.

+5 letters: asymptotes, autotypies, baptistery, copycatted, hepatocyte, hypertexts, impotently, interparty, lectotypes, lithophyte, nymphettes, optatively, osteopathy, penitently, perpetuity, petulantly, photometry, polytheist, protectory, prototyped, prototypes, putatively, pyrrhotite, somatotype, stenotyped, stenotypes, stereotype, stereotypy, strathspey, temptingly, tryptamine, tympanites, typescript, typesetter, typestyles, typewriter, typewrites.