nite
/ˈnaɪ̯t/noun
nite is spelled N-I-T-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “night vs nite” about 1,000 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, nite means “Informal spelling of night” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nite is nites.
How many letters and syllables are in nite?
| Letters | 4: N-I-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is nite?
Nite appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,918th 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 nite?
- US /ˈnaɪ̯t/
- US [ˈnaɪ̯t]
- /ˈnɐɪ̯t/
Nite has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-night.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-night.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nite
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: knight, night (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with nite?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nite from its last stressed vowel (/aɪt/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tine, tein.
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 nite
- nites plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nite mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
informalInformal spelling of night.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).