English - Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭt, hwĭt, IPA^(key): /wɪt/, /ʍɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt
• Homophone: wit (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

English - Noun

whit (plural whits)

1. The smallest part or particle imaginable; an iota.

   He worked tirelessly to collect and wind a ball of string eight feet around, and it matters not one whit.

   • 1602: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act V scene 2

     Not a whit.

   • 1917, Incident by Countee Cullen

     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.'

Synonyms

• (smallest part imaginable): bit, iota, jot, scrap
• See also Wikisaurus:modicum.

Translations

English - Anagrams

• with

Middle English - Etymology

From Old English hwit.

Middle English - Adjective

whit

1. white

Descendants

• English: white

Scots - Pronoun

whit

1. what

Rima