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bitrot

bitrot is the alternative spelling of bit rot.

Meaning of bit rot

Noun

bit rot (uncountable)

  1. The putative tendency of content in storage to become corrupt over time.
    • The rise of gaming has its own place in the story of digital culture, but Cerf warns that important political and historical documents will also be lost to bit rot.2015 February 13, Ian Sample, “Google boss warns of 'forgotten century' with email and photos at risk”, in The Guardian
  2. The tendency of software in storage to develop bugs over time due to minor incompatibilities with newer operating environments.

Verb

bitrot (third-person singular simple present bitrots, present participle bitrotting, simple past and past participle bitrotted)

  1. To undergo bit rot

Forms of bitrot

third-person singular presentbitrots
present participlebitrotting
past participlebitrotted
pastbitrotted

Questions about bitrot

What does bitrot mean?
Bitrot means to undergo bit rot.
What is bitrot the alternative spelling of?
Bitrot is the alternative spelling of bit rot.
What part of speech is bitrot?
Bitrot is a verb.
What is the past tense of bitrot?
The past tense of bitrot is bitrotted.

Words near bitrot in the dictionary

  1. bitrates
  2. bitriplet
  3. bitriplets
  4. bitrochanteric
  5. bitrophic
  6. bitrot
  7. bitrotten
  8. bitruncated
  9. bitruncation
  10. bitruncations
  11. bits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bitrot (page history and authors); bit rot (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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