bitte
\bit\
The verdict
“bitte” is uncommon French (frequency #59,835 among 4,251 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,835
- frequency rank, French
- 4,251
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pièce verticale, de section ronde ou carrée, que l’on trouve sur le quai d’un port et que l’on utilise pour amarrer les bateaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-bitte · bitte · French
bitte · rank #59,835 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,835
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,251
- PHOTO-FINISH blâment
Nearest frequency peer: blâment (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « bitte »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- bidouiller
bidouiller
40,169 corpus weight
- Bilodeau
Bilodeau
40,168 corpus weight
- bitte
bitte
40,166 corpus weight
- blâment
blâment
40,165 corpus weight
- bode
bode
40,164 corpus weight
- Bogdanoff
Bogdanoff
40,163 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « bitte » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bitte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \bit\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,835 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « bitte » en français
Rare enough to double-check
bitte is uncommon French at frequency #59,835 among 4,251 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \bit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
bitte doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is bitte, spelled B-I-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Pièce verticale, de section ronde ou carrée, que l’on trouve sur le quai d’un port et que l’on utilise pour amarrer les bateaux.
- 2Variante orthographique de bite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bitte appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je suis encore restée quelque temps à regarder les ondulations du canal Saint-George, la ligne granitique des quais, la tension des cordages, la rigidité des bittes – un des premiers mots français dont Monsieur Presle m’ait appris le sens à cause de ses origines scandinaves : « biti, poutre transversale de navire ».
Assise sur une bitte D’amarrage, elle pleure Son homme qui la quitte, La mer c’est son malheur.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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