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hits

/hɪts/noun, determiner, verb

hits is spelled H-I-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 45 times per million words in written English, the 2,253rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hits means “plural of hit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in hits?

Letters4: H-I-T-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing45 times per million words; the 2,253rd 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 hits?

Hits appears 45 times per million words in written English, the 2,253rd 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 hits?

  • /hɪts/

Hits 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).

Words people confuse with hits

Also written: its.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with hits?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: this, sith, hist, tish.

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).

What does hits mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of hit (a form of hit)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of hit (a form of hit)

noun

as HITS
  1. 1

    datedslangAcronym of herrings in tomato sauce.

noun

as HITs
  1. 1

    plural of HIT (a form of HIT)

determiner

  1. 1

    Alternative form of its.

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

How do you abbreviate hits?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of hits: H.

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

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