أَخْصَرُ
[Shorter: and shortest]. You say, هٰذَاأَخْصَرُ مِنْ ذَاكَThis [road] is shorter than that. But this is irregular; أَخْصَرُ being formed from اُخْتُصِرَ, a verb of more than three letters.
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