whit
/wɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep
Pronunciation spelling of with.
noun
noun
The season of Whitsuntide.
Example Sentences
- "Star. I beleeue we muſt leaue the killing out, when all is done. Bot. Not a whit: I haue a deuice to make all well."
- "Sadly behind the great age of rowdy self-advertisement in which their lot has fallen, they seem not to have advanced one whit beyond John the Baptist and the Apostles, 1800 years ago, in their notions of the way in which the metanoia, the change of mind of the ill-doer, is to be brought about."
- "But now another idea had obtruded itself, and was rapidly crowding his original intentions into the background. That American fortune was not to be sneezed at, nor was its possessor a whit less attractive."
- "Now I was eight and very small, / And he was no whit bigger / And so I smiled, but he poked out / His tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'"
- "In conclusion, I would remark that the great railway stations of London deserve to be visited every whit as much as St. Paul's Cathedral, the Abbey, or the Tower, and they are as worthy a memento of this century as those buildings are of the days that are gone."
- "Holonyms: Pentecost, Whitsun, Whitsuntide, Whit (season)"
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wiȝt, wiht, *wihtą, *wekti-
Usage
Inflected Forms
whits (plural)
the Whit (canonical)