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Is whit a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word whit is a Scrabble US word. The word whit is worth 10 points in Scrabble:

W4H4I1T1

Is whit a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word whit is a Scrabble UK word and has 10 points:

W4H4I1T1

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Yes. The word whit is a Words With Friends word. The word whit is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4H3I1T1

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4-letter words (2 found)

WHIT,WITH,

3-letter words (2 found)

HIT,WIT,

2-letter words (3 found)

HI,IT,TI,

You can make 7 words from whit according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of whit

whit

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wiȝt, wight, from Old English wiht (“wight, person, creature, being, whit, thing, something, anything”), from Proto-Germanic *wihtą (“thing, creature”) or *wihtiz (“essence, object”), from Proto-Indo-European *wekti- (“cause, sake, thing”), from *wekʷ- (“to say, tell”). Cognate with Old High German wiht (“creature, thing”), Dutch wicht, German Wicht. Doublet of wight.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: wĭt, hwĭt, IPA(key): /wɪt/, /ʍɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɪt
  • Homophone: wit (wine–whine merger)

Noun

whit (plural whits)

  1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.
    Synonyms: bit, iota, jot, scrap; see also Thesaurus:modicum
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Preposition

whit

  1. Pronunciation spelling of with.

Anagrams

  • with, with-

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • hwit, white, whyte, whitt, whytt, whyt, whiȝt, qwyght, ȝwijt, wyghte, whiyt, whijt

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt, from Proto-Germanic *hwītaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hwiːt/

Adjective

whit (plural and weak singular white, comparative whitter, superlative whittest)

  1. white, pale, light (in color)
  2. (referring to people) wearing white clothes
  3. (referring to people) having white skin
  4. attractive, fair, beautiful
  5. bright, shining, brilliant
  6. (referring to plants) having white flowers
  7. (heraldry) silver, argent (tincture)
  8. (alchemy) Inducing the transmutation of a substance into silver
  9. (medicine) Unusually light; bearing the pallor of death

Related terms

  • snow whit

Descendants

  • English: white (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white
  • Yola: whit

References

  • “whīt, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

Noun

whit

  1. white (colour)
  2. white pigment
  3. The white of an egg
  4. The white of an eye
  5. white fabric
  6. white wine
  7. dairy products
  8. Other objects notable for being white

Descendants

  • English: white
  • Scots: quhite, fyte, fite, whyte, white

References

  • “whīt, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.

See also

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʍɪt]

Pronoun

whit

  1. Alternative form of what

References

  • “what, pron., adv., adj., conj., interj..”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English whit, from Old English hwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *hwīt.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hwɪt/

Adjective

whit (comparative whiter)

  1. white

Derived terms

  • Whit
  • Whithele

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78

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