Minute Pasta
| Image | Type | Description | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acini di pepe | Bead-like pasta | Peppercorns | |
| Alfabeto | Pasta shaped as letters of the alphabet | Alphabet | |
| Anelli | Small rings of pasta (not to be confused with Calamaretti) | Rings | |
| Anellini | Smaller version of anelli | Little rings | |
| Couscous | Grain-like pasta, most common in North Africa and Europe (especially France), increasingly common in Asia and North America | ||
| Conchigliette | Small shell-shaped pasta | Little shells | |
| Corallini | Small short tubes of pasta | Little corals | |
| Ditali | Small short tubes | Thimbles | |
| Ditalini | Smaller versions of ditali | Little thimbles | |
| Egg barley | |||
| Farfalline | Small bow tie-shaped pasta | Little butterflies ("bow tie" in Italian is cravatta a farfalla, "butterfly tie") | |
| Fideos | Short, thin noodles | ||
| Filini | Smaller version of fideos, about 12–15 mm long before cooking | Little threads. | |
| Fregula | Bead-like pasta from Sardinia | Little fragments | |
| Funghini | Small mushroom-shaped pasta | Little mushrooms | |
| Grattini | Small granular, irregular shaped pasta (smaller version then Grattoni) | Little Grains | |
| Grattoni | Large granular, irregular shaped pasta | Grains | |
| Israeli couscous (Ptitim) | Wheat-based baked pasta | ||
| Midolline | Flat teardrop shaped pasta (similar to Orzo but wider) | ||
| Occhi di pernice | Very small rings of pasta | Partridge's eyes | |
| Orzo (also, risoni) | Rice shaped pasta | Barley | |
| Pastina | Small spheres about the same size or smaller than acini di pepe | Little pasta | |
| Pearl Pasta | Spheres slightly larger than acini di pepe | ||
| Puntine | Smaller version of Risi | ||
| Quadrettini | Small flat squares of pasta | Little squares | |
| Risi | Smaller version of orzo | Little rice | |
| Seme di melone | Small seed-shaped pasta | Melon seeds | |
| Stelle | Small star-shaped pasta | Stars | |
| Stelline | Smaller version of stelle | Little stars | |
| Stortini | Smaller version of elbow macaroni | Little crooked ones |
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