brit
/bɹɪt/verb, noun
brit is spelled B-R-I-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, brit means “To break in pieces; divide” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in brit?
| Letters | 4: B-R-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.9 times per million words; the 13,127th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is brit?
Brit appears 3.9 times per million words in written English, the 13,127th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce brit?
- /bɹɪt/
Brit has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Brit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with brit?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as brit.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: birt, trib.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of brit
- brits present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- britting participle, present
- britted participle, past
- britt
- brite
- bris
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does brit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To break in pieces; divide.
- 2
To bruise; indent.
- 3
To fall out or shatter (as overripe hops or grain).
- 4
To fade away; alter.
noun
- 1
One of the young of herrings, sprats, etc.
- 2
One of the tiny crustaceans, of the genus Calanus, that are part of the diet of right whales.
- 3
brit milah
- 4
A covenant, specifically that between God and the Jewish people.
noun
- 1
informalA British person.
- 2
A Brit Award, a prize for musicians in Britain.
adjective
- 1
Abbreviation of British.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does brit come from?
From Middle English brytten, brutten, from Old English brittian, bryttian (“to divide, dispense, distribute, rule over, possess, enjoy the use of”), from Proto-Germanic *brutjaną (“to break, divide”), from Proto-Germanic *breutaną (“to destroy, crush, break”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewd- (“to break”). Cognate with Icelandic brytja (“to chop up, break in pieces, slaughter”), Swedish bryta (“to break, fracture, cut off”), Danish bryde (“to break”), and outside the Germanic family with Albanian brydh (“to make crumbly, friable, soft”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).