bint
/bɪnt/
"bint" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bint” is uncommon English (frequency #57,893 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,893
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A woman, a girl.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bint · bint · English
bint · rank #57,893 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,893
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH biopharmaceut…
Nearest frequency peer: biopharmaceutical (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “bint”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- basilisk
basilisk
42,116 corpus weight
- bint
bint
42,108 corpus weight
- biopharmace…
biopharmaceutical
42,106 corpus weight
- bipedal
bipedal
42,105 corpus weight
- bitmap
bitmap
42,104 corpus weight
- blooper
blooper
42,100 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bint” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bint |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɪnt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,893 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bint” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bint is uncommon English at frequency #57,893 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɪnt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A woman, a girl.".
bint has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym. The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "… The correct English form is bint, spelled B-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1A woman, a girl.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tell that bint to get herself in here now!
Don't you remember the Crimbo din-din we had with the grotty Scots bint?
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic بِنْت (bint, “girl, daughter”), from Proto-Semitic *bint-, used to denote a patronym. The term entered the British lexicon during the occupation of Egypt at the end of the 19th century, where it was adopted by British soldiers to mean "girlfriend" or "bit on the side". Its register varies from that of the harsher bitch to being affectionate, the latter more commonly associated with the West Midlands. The term was used in British armed forces and the London area synonymously with bird in its slang usage (and sometimes brass) from at least the 1950s. (In the Tyneside shipping industry, particularly in Laygate, in South Shields, the term may have been adopted earlier, from the Yemeni community which had existed there since the 1890s.)
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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