whit

Other forms of whit

plural

whits·

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 whit

What does whit mean?

whit means "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount".

How many syllables are in whit?

whit has 1 syllable: whit. In IPA it is /ˈwɪt/.

What is another word for whit?

Close synonyms include shred, scintilla, iota, tittle, smidgen. 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.

Is whit a common word?

whit is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with whit?

1 word rhymes with whit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.