rarebit
noun
rarebit is a noun meaning “Welsh rarebit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-R-E-B-I-T, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rarebit is rarebits.
What does rarebit mean?
noun
- 1
Welsh rarebit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rarebit
- rarebits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rarebit?
Rarebit appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd 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).
Where does rarebit come from?
By ellipsis of Welsh rarebit, corruption of Welsh rabbit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).