biter
/ˈbaɪtɚ/noun
biter is spelled B-I-T-E-R: 5 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, biter means “A fish that tends to take bait” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of biter is biters.
How many letters and syllables are in biter?
| Letters | 5: B-I-T-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is biter?
Biter appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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).
How do you pronounce biter?
- US /ˈbaɪtɚ/
- UK /ˈbaɪtə/
Biter 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: En-au-biter.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with biter?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as biter from its last stressed vowel (/aɪtəɹ/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tribe.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of biter
- biters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does biter mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Agent noun of bite: someone or something who bites or tends to bite.
Not all dogs are biters.
- 2
A fish that tends to take bait.
- 3
A person who takes up an offer or request.
I put up some fliers for the org but didn't get any biters
- 4
A stone that barely touches the outside of the house.
- 5
slangOne who copies someone else's work, style or techniques, especially in hip-hop.
- 6
obsoleteA cheat or fraudster.
- 7
A zombie.
- 8
Something (a data unit, machine etc.) with a width of a specified amount of bits.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does biter come from?
From Middle English biter, bitere, equivalent to bite + -er. Cognate with West Frisian biter (“biter”), Dutch bijter (“biter”), German Low German Bieter (“biter”), German Beißer (“biter”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).