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tike

/taɪk/noun

tike is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-I-K-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of tike is tikes.

What does tike mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of tyke (mongrel dog)

  2. 2

    Alternative spelling of tyke (Yorkshireman)

  3. 3

    A boorish person.

  4. 4

    archaicArchaic form of tick (type of arthropod).

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

How do you pronounce tike?

  • /taɪk/

Tike has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-tike.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of tike

  • tikes plural

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

How common is tike?

Tike appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 134,976th 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).