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BITES

5 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 2 pts
Big 2 pts
Super Big 2 pts

BITES is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.

BITES root BITE-s

Word family

BITE 1 BITING 3 BIT 1 BITTEN 3

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BITINGS 5 BITINGLY 11
verb
  1. transitiveTo cut into something by clamping the teeth.
    • As soon as you bite that sandwich, you'll know how good it is.
  2. transitiveTo hold something by clamping one's teeth.
  3. intransitiveTo attack with the teeth.
    • That dog is about to bite!
  4. intransitiveTo behave aggressively; to reject advances.
    • If you see me, come and say hello. I don't bite.
  5. intransitiveTo take hold; to establish firm contact with.
    • I needed snow chains to make the tires bite.
  6. intransitiveTo have significant effect, often negative.
    • For homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages, rising interest will really bite.
  7. intransitiveTo bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
    • Are the fish biting today?
  8. figurativelyintransitiveTo accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
    • I've planted the story. Do you think they'll bite?
  9. intransitivetransitiveTo sting.
    • These mosquitoes are really biting today!
  10. intransitiveTo cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
    • It bites like pepper or mustard.
  11. figurativelysometimestransitiveTo cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
    • Pepper bites the mouth.
  12. intransitiveTo cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
  13. intransitiveTo take or keep a firm hold.
    • The anchor bites.
  14. transitiveTo take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
    • The anchor bites the ground.
  15. slangstativeTo lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
    • This music really bites.
  16. informaltransitivevulgarTo perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
    • You don't like that I sat on your car? Bite me.
  17. intransitiveslangTo plagiarize, to imitate.
    • He always be biting my moves.
  18. obsoleteslangtransitiveTo deceive or defraud; to take in.
noun
  1. countableuncountableThe act of biting.
  2. countableuncountableThe wound left behind after having been bitten.
    • That snake bite really hurts!
  3. countableuncountableThe swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
    • After just one night in the jungle I was covered with mosquito bites.
  4. countableuncountableA piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
    • There were only a few bites left on the plate.
  5. countableslanguncountableSomething unpleasant.
  6. countableslanguncountableAn act of plagiarism.
    • That song is a bite of my song!
  7. countableuncountableA small meal or snack.
    • a bite to eat
    • I'll have a quick bite to quiet my stomach until dinner.
  8. figurativelyuncountableincisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
  9. figurativelyuncountableAggression.
  10. countableuncountableThe hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
  11. colloquialcountabledateduncountableA cheat; a trick; a fraud.
  12. colloquialcountabledatedslanguncountableA sharper; one who cheats.
  13. countableuncountableA blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
  14. countableslanguncountableA cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
  15. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of sound bite.
  16. countableuncountableThe turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.