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You can make 10 words from flit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of flit

flit lfit filt iflt lift ilft flti lfti ftli tfli ltfi tlfi fitl iftl ftil tfil itfl tifl litf iltf ltif tlif itlf tilf

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

Definitions and meaning of flit

flit

Etymology 1

From Middle English flitten, flytten, from Old Norse flytja (“to move”), from Proto-Germanic *flutjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *plewd- (“to flow; run”). Cognate Icelandic flytja, Swedish flytta, Danish flytte, Norwegian flytte, Faroese flyta. Compare also Saterland Frisian flitskje (“to rush; run quickly”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

Noun

flit (plural flits)

1. A fluttering or darting movement.
2. (physics) A particular, unexpected, short lived change of state.

3. (dated, slang) A homosexual.

Derived terms

• moonlight flit

Verb

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flitting, simple past and past participle flitted)

1. To move about rapidly and nimbly.
   • 1855, Tennyson, Maud:

     A shadow flits before me, / Not thou, but like to thee; […]
2. To move quickly from one location to another.
3. (physics) To unpredictably change state for short periods of time.

4. (UK, dialect) To move house (sometimes a sudden move to avoid debts).
5. To move a tethered animal to a new, grazing location.
6. To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.

Related terms

• dart
• dash
• flirt
• lunge

Translations

Adjective

flit (comparative more flit, superlative most flit)

1. (poetic, obsolete) Fast, nimble.

Etymology 2

Short for flow control unit or flow control digit.

Noun

flit (plural flits)

1. (networking) A flow control unit or flow control digit.

Anagrams

• ILTF, lift

Indonesian

Noun

flit (first-person possessive flitku, second-person possessive flitmu, third-person possessive flitnya)

1. insect killer

Middle English

Noun

flit

1. Alternative form of flyt

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

flit m (definite singular fliten, uncountable)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of flid m

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *flit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flit/

Noun

flit n

1. argument, fight
2. arguing, fighting
3. contest, competition

Usage notes

• By the written period, flit almost exclusively appears in compounds; otherwise the synonym ġeflit is used. See there for usage notes, and for evidence that the /i/ is short.

Declension

Derived terms

• flitcræft
• flitfull
• flitġeorn
• flitmǣlum
• ġeflit

Related terms

• flītan

Scots

Verb

flit (third-person singular simple present flits, present participle flittin, simple past flittit, past participle flittit)

1. To move house.
2. To flit.

Derived terms

• munelicht flittin

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish flit, from Middle Low German vlīt, vlît, from Old Saxon *flīt, from Proto-West Germanic *flīt, from Proto-Germanic *flītaz, for which compare *flītan (“to strive”).

See also German Low German Fliet, Saterland Frisian Fliet, Dutch vlijt, Danish flid, Norwegian Bokmål flid, Norwegian Nynorsk flit, and German Fleiß, Fleiss.

Pronunciation

Noun

flit c

1. diligence, industriousness, energy

Declension

Related terms

• flitbetyg
• flitig
• flitpengar

See also

• med flit (“on purpose”)

References

• flit in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• flit in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• flit in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• filt