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bite

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Is bite a Scrabble word?

Yes, bite is a valid Scrabble word! Worth 6 points in Scrabble.

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  • Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
  • Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
  • Wordle No
  • Words With Friends Yes

What is the meaning of bite?

Definition

verb (English)

1. (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.Examples: "As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is."transitive

2. (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.transitive

3. (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.Examples: "That dog is about to bite!"intransitive

4. (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.Examples: "If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite."intransitive

5. (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.Examples: "I needed snow chains to make the tires bite."intransitive

6. (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.Examples: "For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite."intransitive

noun (English)

1. (slang) Something unpleasant.Examples: "In February of this year, 9to5 was forced to lay off four of its paid staff, and began to feel the bite of its high-rent downtown office space."countableslanguncountable

2. (slang) An act of plagiarism.Examples: "That song is a bite of my song!"countableslanguncountable

3. (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.figurativelyuncountable

4. (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.Examples: "Kathy Santen is full of bite as the bizarrely seduced Lady Anne, although her exaggerated diction is a bit too snappishly Shakespearean."; "In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical."; "City scored the goals but periods of ball possession were shared - the difference being Villa lacked bite in the opposition final third."figurativelyuncountable

5. (colloquial, dated) A cheat; a trick; a fraud.Examples: "The baser methods of getting money by fraud and bite, by deceiving and overreaching."colloquialcountabledateduncountable

6. (colloquial, dated, slang) A sharper; one who cheats.Examples: "[I]t was conjectured, that Peregrine was a bite from the beginning, who had found credit on account of his effrontery and appearance, and impoſed himſelf upon the town as a young gentleman of fortune."; "So he went home cursing the Yorkshire bites, and swearing there was no living among them […]"colloquialcountabledatedslanguncountable

Definition source: Wiktionary

What Scrabble words can I make with the letters in "bite"?

How many Scrabble points is the word "bite"?

Scrabble
6 points
B3
I1
T1
E1
Words With Friends
7 points
B4
I1
T1
E1

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