spinnerbait
noun
spinnerbait is a noun meaning “A kind of fishing lure with spinning blades that create varying degrees of flash and vibration mimicking the movement of a fish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-P-I-N-N-E-R-B-A-I-T, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of spinnerbait is spinnerbaits.
What does spinnerbait mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of fishing lure with spinning blades that create varying degrees of flash and vibration mimicking the movement of a fish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce spinnerbait?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-spinnerbait.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spinnerbait
- spinnerbaits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is spinnerbait?
Spinnerbait appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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 spinnerbait come from?
From spinner + bait.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).