quits
/kwɪts/noun, adjective, verb
quits is spelled Q-U-I-T-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, quits means “plural of quit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in quits?
| Letters | 5: Q-U-I-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd 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 quits?
Quits appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 quits?
- /kwɪts/
Quits 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-quits.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with quits?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as quits.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: quist.
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 quits mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of quit
adjective
- 1
UKcolloquialOn equal monetary terms; neither owing or being owed.
Here's the last of the money you lent me. We're quits now, right?
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of quit
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Quits in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense on equal monetary terms:
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 quits come from?
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).