Definitions for nit

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Spelling: [nit]
IPA: /nɪt/

Nit is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 3 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 4 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in nit (int).

Definitions for nit

noun

  1. the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.
  2. the young of such an insect.
  3. a unit of luminous intensity equal to one candela per square meter. Abbreviation: nt.
  4. a nitwit.

Origin of nit

before 900; Middle English nite, Old English hnitu, cognate with Dutch neet, German Niss, Norwegian nit

Examples for nit

And as he glowered at the little Cuban, he ended his oration with one eloquent word, "nit!"

He remains hidden (perdue) and, like the midge of the egg of an insect (nit), is safe through his very insignificance.

I wuz taught ter weav', card, spin en 'nit en ter wuk in de fiel's.

It has not been individually taught; its personal experience is nit; but it has the benefit of ancestral experience.

Das der gmein man, one eine offne Disputation, nit zu stillen was.

We wore yarn hoods, sha'ls, en pantletts which wuz 'nit things dat kum fum yo shoe tops ter 'bove yo knees.

Nor sie kuckt trucken, wie varstinert, in ihr Ssider; nit sie wint, nit sie dawent.

But Lee wuz dead in earnest an' growin' more excited ivery min nit.

A fire not large enough to roast a nit, and a supper too small to fatten him beforehand!

“Weiss nit,” he mumbled, beginning to stagger as the serpent struck its fangs into his vitals.

Word Value for nit
Scrable

3

Words with friends

4

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