bint
/bɪnt/
"bint" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bint” is an uncommon English word, ranked #57,893 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #57,893
- frequency rank, English
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A woman, a girl.
| 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) |
Where “bint” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for bint is 4 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /bɪnt/. Corpus data places it at rank #57,893 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “bint”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-I-N-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /bɪnt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.