skit
noun, verb
skit is spelled S-K-I-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, skit means “A short comic performance done by amateurs” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of skit is skits.
How many letters and syllables are in skit?
| Letters | 4: S-K-I-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th 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 skit?
Skit appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 skit?
- US
Skit 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-us-skit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with skit?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as skit.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: kist.
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 skit
- skits plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- skitting participle, present
- skitted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does skit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A short comic performance done by amateurs.
- 2
A jeer or sally; a brief satire.
- 3
obsoleteA wanton girl; a wench.
- 4
A short, sharp shower (of rain).
- 5
Diarrhea, in livestock; the scour.
verb
- 1
IrelandTo make fun of.
- 2
To caper; to skip or run lightly and quickly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Skit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense comedy:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sketch, parodie, saynète |
| German | Darbietung, Parodie, Satire, Seitenhieb, Spott, satirische Einlage |
| Portuguese | esquete |
| Spanish | sainete |
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 skit come from?
Origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse skjúta (“to shoot, dart, move quickly”), variant of skjóta. Compare flytja (“to move”). Alternately, perhaps a back-formation from skittish, which in turn may derive from Old Norse or another North Germanic language.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).