Word before fry or potatoes

The answer

SMALL

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SMALL answer page.

Used 11 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SMALL

Every other clue in this collection answered by SMALL, most used first.

• Petty - used 23 times, most recently in 2020
• Wee - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Little - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• T-shirt size - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
• Tiny - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Pint-sized - used 13 times, most recently in 2024
• Trivial - used 12 times, most recently in 2021
• Diminutive - used 11 times, most recently in 2023
• Insignificant - used 11 times, most recently in 2022
• T-shirt choice - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Lowercase - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Pint-size - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Picayune - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• Like some talk - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Miniature - used 7 times, most recently in 2023
• Back part - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Lilliputian - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Minute - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• Petite - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Sweater size - used 6 times, most recently in 2024

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Parting word - ADIEU, used 196 times
• Letter before iota - THETA, used 79 times
• Pan-fry - SAUTE, used 72 times
• Fry lightly - SAUTE, used 64 times
• Before - UNTIL, used 59 times
• First Lady before Michelle - LAURA, used 58 times

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