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pitbull

noun

pitbull is spelled P-I-T-B-U-L-L: 7 letters. It appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pitbull means “Shortened form of pit bull terrier” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pitbull is pitbulls.

How many letters and syllables are in pitbull?

Letters7: P-I-T-B-U-L-L
In writing1.2 times per million words; the 26,092nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).

How common is pitbull?

Pitbull appears 1.2 times per million words in written English, the 26,092nd 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).

Words people confuse with pitbull

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: pit bull (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of pitbull

  • pitbulls plural
  • pit-bull
  • pit bull

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pitbull mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Shortened form of pit bull terrier.

  2. 2

    informalAn aggressive person.

    My mother was a pitbull.

  3. 3

    A NATO brevity code indicating a semi-active radar homing missile has begun active homing, and no longer requires its operator to maintain a radar track.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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