skite
/skaɪt/noun, verb
skite is spelled S-K-I-T-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, skite means “A contemptible person” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of skite is skites.
How many letters and syllables are in skite?
| Letters | 5: S-K-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 93 million words; the 309,272nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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).
How common is skite?
Skite appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd 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 skite?
- /skaɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-skite.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of skite
- skites plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skyte
- skiting participle, present
- skited participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A contemptible person.
- 2
obsoleteA sudden hit or blow; a glancing blow.
- 3
A trick.
- 4
IrelandA drinking binge.
- 5
AustraliaIrelandOne who skites; a boaster.
- 6
IrelandA whimsical or leisurely trip.
We're going on a skite to Dublin.
- 7
Alternative spelling of skete.
verb
- 1
AustraliaIrelandTo boast.
You boast and skite from morn to night / And think you're very brave, / But the men who really did the job / Are dead and in their graves.
- 2
To skim or slide along a surface.
[…] skiting down that steep slope. But it's one thing to slide down a steep slope and quite another thing to climb back up - as Mary Jane soon discovered. Try her hardest , she simply could not get up that hill; she slid down faster than sh
- 3
ScotlandTo slip, such as on ice.
- 4
To move swiftly; to move in leaps and bounds.
- 5
To pop, to quickly or briefly make a trip to.
- 6
ScotlandslangTo drink a large amount of alcohol.
- 7
archaicvulgarTo defecate, to shit.
There is no need of wiping ones taile (said Gargantua), but when it is foule; foule it cannot be unlesse one have been a skiting; skite then we must before we wipe our tailes.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does skite come from?
From Middle English skit, from Old Norse *skitr, older form of skítr (“dung, faeces”), from Proto-Germanic *skitiz. Cognate with Old English sċite (“dung”). Doublet of shit and shite.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).