debit

Other forms of debit

plural

debits·

past tense

debitted·

present participle

debitting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about debit

What does debit mean?

debit means "an accounting entry acknowledging sums that are owing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in debit?

debit has 2 syllables: deb-it. The stress falls on "deb". In IPA it is /ˈdɛbɪt/.

What is another word for debit?

Close synonyms include debit entry. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of debit?

The recorded antonyms are credit, credit.

Is debit a common word?

debit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.