bit

Other forms of bit

plural

bits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bit

What does bit mean?

bit means "a small piece or quantity of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bit?

bit has 1 syllable: bit. In IPA it is /ˈbɪt/.

What is another word for bit?

Close synonyms include spot, chip, flake, fleck, scrap. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bit a common word?

bit is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bit?

1 word rhymes with bit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.