# bitch

> English word · Noun · IPA /bɪt͡ʃ/ · frequency rank #1,784

## Definitions
1. A female dog or other canine, particularly a recent mother.
2. A promiscuous woman, slut, whore.
3. A despicable or disagreeable, aggressive person, usually a woman.
4. A woman.
5. A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
6. A man considered soft, effeminate, weak, timid or pathetic in some way
7. A submissive person who does what others want; (prison slang) a man forced or coerced into a homoerotic relationship.
8. A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
9. A female sexual partner, typically in casual sexual relations
10. A playful variation on dog (sense "man").
11. Friend.
12. A complaint, especially when the complaint is unjustified.
13. A difficult or confounding problem.
14. A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.
15. Something unforgiving and unpleasant.
16. Place; situation
17. Tea (the drink).
18. A queen.

## Etymology
From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (“female dog”) (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog, bitch”), Old Danish bikke (“bitch”)), from Proto-Germanic *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“to plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). Related to bicker.

## Easily confused with
- **BTC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-btc)
- **both** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-both)
- **bite** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bite)
- **bits** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bits)
- **bunch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bunch)
- **bites** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bites)
- **butch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-butch)
- **Busch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-busch)
- **Burch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-burch)
- **Bloch** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bloch)
- **bitty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bitty)
- **biter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-biter)
- **bitchy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bitchy)
- **bitches** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bitch-vs-bitches)
- **bit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bit-vs-bitch)
- **Bic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bic-vs-bitch)
- **bath** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bath-vs-bitch)
- **beth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beth-vs-bitch)
- **bach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bach-vs-bitch)
- **beach** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beach-vs-bitch)

## Common misspellings (8)
`bbitch`, `bicth`, `bitcch`, `bitchh`, `bithc`, `bittch`, `btich`, `ibtch`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bitch