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Yes. The word chit is a Scrabble US word. The word chit is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (3 found)

CHIT,ITCH,TICH,

3-letter words (6 found)

CHI,CIT,HIC,HIT,ICH,TIC,

2-letter words (4 found)

CH,HI,IT,TI,

You can make 13 words from chit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of chit

chit hcit ciht icht hict ihct chti hcti cthi tchi htci thci cith icth ctih tcih itch tich hitc ihtc htic thic ithc tihc

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word chit. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in chit.

Definitions and meaning of chit

chit

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”).

Cognate with Scots chit (“chit”), Low German kitte (“young animal”), German Kitz (“fawn, kid”). See also kid.

Noun

chit (plural chits)

  1. A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.
  2. A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

Etymology 2

From Middle English *chit, *chitte, from Old English ċīþ (“germ, seed, sprout, shoot”), from Proto-Germanic *kīþą (“sprout”), from Proto-Indo-European *ĝī-, *ĝey- (“to divide, part, split open, sprout”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch kiede (“sprout”), dialectal German Keid (“sprout”). Doublet of scion.

Noun

chit (plural chits)

  1. The embryonic growing bud of a plant
    Synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling
    the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes
  2. (obsolete) An excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.
Translations

Verb

chit (third-person singular simple present chits, present participle chitting, simple past and past participle chitted)

  1. (intransitive, British, dialect) To sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.
  2. (transitive, British, dialect) To damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.
  3. (transitive, British, dialect) To initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.
Derived terms
  • mini-chitted
Translations

Etymology 3

From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.

Noun

chit (plural chits)

  1. (dated) A small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.
  3. (historical) A voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.
    Synonym: scrip
  4. (pharmacology) A small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.
  5. (gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.
  6. (India, China) A signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.
    • 1901, Falk, by Joseph Conrad
      He just longed to get away from here and try his luck somewhere else, but for the sake of his sister he hung on and on till he ran himself into debt over his ears—I can tell you. I, myself, could show a handful of his chits for meals and drinks in my drawer.
  7. (US, slang) A debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.
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Etymology 4

Perhaps from specialized technical use of Etymology 2, above, “a bud; an excressence” (Hunter 1882).

Noun

chit (plural chits)

  1. A small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.
Translations

Etymology 5

Euphemistic variation of shit.

Noun

chit (uncountable)

  1. (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.

Interjection

chit

  1. (US, slang, euphemistic) Shit.

References

  • “chit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “chit”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Hunter, Robert (1882) The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use‎[5], Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Company

See also

  • chit-chat

Anagrams

  • itch, tich

Hokkien

Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃit/

Noun

chit

  1. rat

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Pnar-Khasi-Lyngngam *ʧit (“warm”). Cognate with Khasi shit.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃit/

Adjective

chit

  1. hot

Romanian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic китъ (kitŭ), from Greek κήτος (kítos). Used around the 16th century.

Noun

chit m (plural chiți) (obsolete)

  1. whale, cetacean
    Synonym: balenă
Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French quitte, itself from Latin quiētus (and therefore a doublet of the inherited încet). The variant cfit is from German quitt.

Adjective

chit m or f or n (indeclinable)

  1. Only used in chit că (“even though”) and fi chit (“be even”)
Alternative forms
  • cfit

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German Kitt.

Noun

chit n (uncountable)

  1. (woodworking) putty
Declension

See also

  • pastă

Source: wiktionary.org