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say it: wits
wits is a noun meaning "the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception". It is pronounced /ˈwɪts/ — wits. It carries one recorded sense.
the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception
“he used his wits to get ahead”
“I was scared out of my wits”
“he still had all his marbles and was in full possession of a lively mind”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for wits come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.