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banty

adjective, noun

banty is spelled B-A-N-T-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, banty means “bantam (small, but aggressive)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in banty?

Letters5: B-A-N-T-Y
In writingabout once in every 54 million words; the 228,409th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is banty?

Banty appears about once in every 54 million words in written English, the 228,409th 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).

Forms of banty

  • banties plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does banty mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    USbantam (small, but aggressive)

    He strutted like a banty rooster.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA bantam.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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