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chit

/t͡ʃɪt/noun, verb, interjection

chit is spelled C-H-I-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, chit means “A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of chit is chits.

How many letters and syllables are in chit?

Letters4: C-H-I-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 chit?

Chit appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 chit?

  • /t͡ʃɪt/

Chit 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: En-au-chit.ogg, En-us-chit.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with chit?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as chit.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: itch, tich.

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 chit

  • chits plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • chitting participle, present
  • chitted participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does chit mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A child or babe; a young, small, or insignificant person or animal.

  2. 2

    A pert or sassy young person, especially a young woman.

  3. 3

    The embryonic growing bud of a plant.

    Near-synonyms: shoot, sprout, seedling

  4. 4

    obsoleteAn excrescence on the body, as a wart or a pimple.

  5. 5

    UKdatedA small sheet or scrap of paper with a hand-written note as a reminder or personal message.

  6. 6

    UKA voucher or token coin used in payrolls under the truck system.

  7. 7

    UKA small sheet of paper on which is written a prescription to be filled; a scrip.

  8. 8

    UKA smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.

  9. 9

    IndiaUKA signed voucher or memorandum of a small debt, as for food and drinks at a club.

  10. 10

    UKA restaurant bill or check

  11. 11

    UKUSslangA debt or favor owed in return for a prior loan or favor granted, especially a political favor.

  12. 12

    UKA small tool used in cleaving laths. Compare: froe.

  13. 13

    UKUSslangShit.

verb

  1. 1

    UKTo sprout; to shoot, as a seed or plant.

  2. 2

    UKTo damage the outer layers of a seed such as Lupinus or Sophora to assist germination.

  3. 3

    UKTo initiate sprouting of tubers, such as potatoes, by placing them in special environment, before planting into the soil.

interjection

  1. 1

    UKUSslangShit.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Chit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpiquer (to initiate sprouting (of tubers)), départoir (cleaving tool)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does chit come from?

From Middle English chitte (“a young animal, cub, whelp”), from Old English *ċytten, *ċietten, *ċitten, from Proto-West Germanic *kittīn, from Proto-Germanic *kittīną (“young animal, fawn, kid”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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