pettily

1. 1.

   in a petty way

Questions about pettily

What does pettily mean?

pettily means "in a petty way".

How many syllables are in pettily?

pettily has 3 syllables and divides as pet-ti-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pettily a common word?

pettily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.