dite
/daɪt/noun
dite is spelled D-I-T-E: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dite means “A trifling quantity or amount” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dite is dites.
How many letters and syllables are in dite?
| Letters | 4: D-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 19 million words; the 131,834th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is dite?
Dite appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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 dite?
- /daɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-dite.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dite?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dite.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: diet, tied, edit, tide.
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 dite
- dites present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- diting participle, present
- dited participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USA trifling quantity or amount.
A “dite” is a Maine measurement, somewhere between a smidge and a bit.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo prepare for use or action; to make ready.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dite come from?
Variant of doit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).