Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "confetti" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

air big cities cities friend's wedding party party shop shredder street after parade streets times square on new years

Capable Of

catch fire easily

Derived Terms

Belfast confetti Irish confetti cakefetti champagne confetti confetti cake confettilike funfetti

Etymologically Related To

spaghetti

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

paper

Type Of (IsA)

paper small pieces of paper small ribbons

Not Has Property

used at funerals

Receives Action

thrown thrown at celebration used at political conventions

Related Terms

paper wedding

Used For

celebrate celebrate new year celebrate special occasion celebrating enhance celebration throwing throwing at celebration throwing during parade throwing during party

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.