wit

1. 1.

   a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

   Synonymshumorhumourwitticismwittiness

   Broadermessage

   Narrowerjeu d'espritbon motesprit de l'escalierpungencysarcasmreparteejokecaricaturecartoonfun
2. 2.

   mental ability

   “he's got plenty of brains but no common sense”

   Synonymsbrainbrainpowerlearning abilitymental capacitymentality

   Broaderintelligence
3. 3.

   a witty amusing person who makes jokes

   Synonymswagcard

   Broaderhumorist

   colloquialism

Other forms of wit

plural

wits·

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 wit

What does wit mean?

wit means "a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wit?

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

What is another word for wit?

Close synonyms include humor, humour, witticism, wittiness, brain. 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 wit a common word?

wit 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 wit?

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