petties
pet·ties/ˈpɛtiz/noun
petties is a noun meaning “Petty or miscellaneous expenses” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-E-T-T-I-E-S and has 2 syllables (pet·ties), and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does petties mean?
noun
- 1
Petty or miscellaneous expenses.
- 2
plural of petty
- 3
plural of pettie
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce petties?
- UK /ˈpɛtiz/
- US /ˈpɛtiz/
- US [-ɾiz]
Petties has 2 syllables, split pet·ties in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is petties?
Petties appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does petties come from?
From petty (adjective, noun) + -ies. The plural noun is a shortening of petty expenses.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).