baity
/ˈbeɪti/adjective
baity is an adjective meaning “Angry, bad-tempered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled B-A-I-T-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 39 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does baity mean?
adjective
- 1
UKdatedslangAngry, bad-tempered.
- 2
informalConstituting bait (something intended to allure), especially Oscar bait or clickbait.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce baity?
- /ˈbeɪti/
Baity has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-baity.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of baity
- baitier comparative
- baitiest superlative
- batey
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is baity?
Baity appears about once in every 39 million words in written English, the 191,932nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does baity come from?
From bait (“fit of anger”) + -y.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).