wit
Sanity.
Noun 4 meanings
Sanity.
“He's gone completely out of his wits.”
The senses.
“Keep your wits about you.”
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
“Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.”
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
“My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.”
Verb 1 meaning
To know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
“You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.”
Etymology
From Middle English wit, witt, wyt, from Old English witt (“mind, sanity, sense, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *witi, from Proto-Germanic *witją (“knowledge; reason; wit”), from Proto-Germanic *witaną (“to know”), from Proto-Indo-European *wóyde (“to know”), from *weyd- (“to see”).
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WIT at a glance
WIT has 3 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (W 4 + I 1 + T 1) and 6 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,520 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with wit
All rhymes- TWIT7
- OUTWIT9
- DIMWIT12
- NITWIT9
- HALFWIT16
- GODWIT11
- PEEWIT11
- BLEWIT11
- INWIT8
- NIMBLEWIT16
- PEWIT10
- TEWIT8
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