biter
French, verb/bi.te/
biter is spelled B-I-T-E-R (5 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 139,724th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Biter is a French verb meaning “alternative form of bitter (“to understand”) (usually used in negative form and especially with rien)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Variante de bitter, comprendre quelque chose (employé souvent à la forme négative)”.
What does biter mean in English?
verb
- 1
slangalternative form of bitter (“to understand”) (usually used in negative form and especially with rien)
verb
- 1
to humiliate, con, dupe, deceive
Oh putain, il m’a bien bité.
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Variante de bitter, comprendre quelque chose (employé souvent à la forme négative). 2. Casser, arnaquer, duper, berner quelqu’un. 3. Battre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of biter
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- bitant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- bité participle past
- bite first-person indicative present
- bites indicative present second-person
- bitons first-person indicative plural
- bitez indicative plural present
- bitent indicative plural present
- bitais first-person imperfect indicative
- bitait imperfect indicative singular
- bitions first-person imperfect indicative
- bitiez imperfect indicative plural
- bitaient imperfect indicative plural
- bitai first-person historic indicative
- bitas historic indicative past
- bita historic indicative past
- bitâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce biter?
- /bi.te/
- \bi.te\
- [bi.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is biter in French?
biter appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).