Crossword Path

Find words for crosswords, Scrabble and word games

Word entry · 9 letters

bagatelle

Best crossword clue

"Minor trifle"

9 letters · collected on this word page

9 lettersPronunciation /ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/Part of speech nounSorted aabeeglltStarts with BEnds with E2 clues
1B2A3G4A5T6E7L8L9E

Definitions

  1. Something trivial, or a table game played with balls and pegs.

Word origin

Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.

Used in a sentence

  • Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle. Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
  • […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]
  • They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues

01Minor trifle9 letters
02Trifling thing9 letters

Not quite right?

"Search similar patterns."

B________

Related words