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BIT

3 letters

✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big too short
(min 4)
Super Big too short
(min 4)

BIT is a valid 3-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic Boggle, though it's too short for Big and Super Big (which need four-letter words).

Word family

BITS-s 1 BITTING-ting 5 BITTED-ted 3

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Other words sharing these letters — a good chance they hide on the same Boggle board.

BITTINGS 11
noun
  1. A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.
    • A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
  2. A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.
    • router bit
    • chamfering bit
  3. UKdatedA coin of a specified value.
    • a threepenny bit
  4. CanadaUShistoricalA unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.
    • A quarter is two bits.
  5. CanadaUSobsoleteA coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the ‘short bit’, i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime.
  6. historicalA unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.
  7. historicalA unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.
  8. Synonym of microbitcoin.
  9. A small amount of something.
    • There were bits of paper all over the floor.
    • Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
    • I've done my bit; I expect you to do yours.
  10. informalSpecifically, a small amount of time.
    • I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
    • He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
  11. informalA small fraction above a whole number.
    • The movie lasted for two and a bit hours.
  12. informalFractions of a second.
    • The 400 metres race was won in 47 seconds and bits.
  13. A portion of something.
    • I'd like a big bit of cake, please.
  14. Somewhat; something, but not very great; also used like jot and whit to express the smallest degree. See also a bit.
    • Am I bored? Not a bit of it!
  15. A replaceable tip for a hand tool or power tool, comprising the portion that drives a fastener.
    • driver bit
  16. slangA prison sentence, especially a short one.
  17. An excerpt of material making up part of a show, comedy routine, etc.
    • His bit about video games was not nearly as entertaining as the other segments of his show.
  18. slangA gag or put-on; a humorous conceit, especially when insistently presented as true.
    • Are you serious, or is this a bit?
  19. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of bit part.
    • She acted her bit in the opening scene.
  20. The part of a key which enters the lock and acts upon the bolt and tumblers.
  21. The cutting iron of a plane.
  22. The bevelled front edge of an axehead along which the cutting edge runs.
  23. A gag of a style similar to a bridle.
  24. A gun.
  25. A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
  26. The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.
  27. Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.
    • status bits on IRC
    • permission bits in a file system
  28. A unit of measure for information entropy.
  29. A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).
verb
  1. transitiveTo put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).
adjective
  1. Having been bitten.
    • Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.