Syllables: Red·dit/ˈɹɛdɪt/
reddit is the alternative form of Reddit.
Proper noun capitalized: Reddit
- An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
- Online forums dedicated to incel culture are a reliable way to see how the term evolved and is used today. A subreddit, or forum on Reddit, called r/incels was one of the most visible meeting places for self-identified incels until it was banned by Reddit in 2017 for “violent content.”2023 March 16, AJ Willingham, “What does the term ‘incel’ mean?”, in CNN
- “I’m an oversharer,” she said. In addition to posting her most interesting interactions to Reddit, she is writing a book about the relationship online, pseudonymously.2025 January 15, Kashmir Hill, “She Is in Love With ChatGPT”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Verb capitalized: Reddit
Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)
- To mention (something) on the website Reddit.
- It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 6997
- ... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 404
Adjective capitalized: Reddit
Reddit (comparative more Reddit, superlative most Reddit)
Noun capitalized: Reddit
Reddit (plural Reddits)
- Reddit's users considered collectively; Reddit's user base, Redditors.
- Reddit praised him for doing a simple act of decency.
- Hello, Reddit! Mind helping me with this Sudoku problem?
- A subreddit.
- I tried visiting the atheism Reddit; biggest mistake of my life.
- A person's profile on Reddit.
- I did some snooping and found her Reddit.
Forms of reddit
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | reddits |
| present participle | redditing |
| past participle | reddited |
| past | reddited |
| third-person singular present | Reddits |
| present participle | Redditing |
| past participle | Reddited |
| past | Reddited |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Reddit |
| superlative | most Reddit |
| Noun | |
| plural | Reddits |
Origin of reddit
The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).
Words formed from reddit
- Plebbit
- reddiquette
- Reddit atheism
- Reddit atheist
- Reddit belt
- Reddit country
- Redditor
- subreddit
Words that rhyme with reddit
Questions about reddit
- What does reddit mean?
- Reddit means an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
- What is reddit the alternative form of?
- Reddit is the alternative form of Reddit.
- What part of speech is reddit?
- Reddit can be a proper noun, a verb, an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce reddit?
- Reddit is pronounced /ˈɹɛdɪt/.
Words near reddit in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: reddit (page history and authors); Reddit (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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