snit
/snɪt/noun
snit is spelled S-N-I-T: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, snit means “A temper; a bad mood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of snit is snits.
How many letters and syllables are in snit?
| Letters | 4: S-N-I-T |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st 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; 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 snit?
Snit appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 snit?
- UK /snɪt/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-snit.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with snit?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as snit (/ɪt/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: inst.
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 snit
- snits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does snit mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA temper; a bad mood.
Near-synonyms: fit, hissy, hissy fit, shit fit, tantrum, snippiness
- 2
derogatoryslangTerm of abuse.
- 3
A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
- 4
USA beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.
- 5
A slice of dried fruit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does snit come from?
American English, of unknown origin, perhaps onomatopoeic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).