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“Whit” or “Wit”

whit / wit are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

whit w·IH·t

No dictionary entry for this spelling — see the usage examples below for how it shows up in writing.

wit w·IH·t

  • nouna message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter.
Usage

Examples in context

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“whit”

  • …Dammann, Sarah Dammann, Chelsea Hertford, Whit Hertford, and Shaylisa Hurte received…
  • …he also played Thor in Whit Stillman's Damsels in Distress.
  • …return after 5-years, for a Whit Holiday Saturday 1st June 1963…
  • On Whit weekend 1942 a convention was…
  • Played by Whit Hertford
  • …the holiday is instead on Whit Monday (which is also a…
  • His actor, Whit Hertford, is the real-life brother…
  • Cars first appeared at the Whit Monday meeting, in event being…
  • …Austrian who arrived for the Whit Sunday meeting in 1964, for…
  • …Tyler, the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Whit Hertford, Kelly Osbourne, Rob Zabrecky,…

“wit”

  • MOP Captain Wit O'Toole obtains a tactical nuclear…
  • Wit as a Weapon: The Political…
  • The care and method with which the moral grounds of…
  • Make It wit Chu
  • …"he was a man of wit and heat, of spirit and
  • …following district of country, to wit: commencing at the mouth of…
  • …words and figures following, to wit:
  • …merely note that it deals with a Manhattan subculture wholly devoid…
  • …classical idioms, and doing so with wit and intelligence.
  • …earnest yet purged of the wit and dynamic, bristly ego that…

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