# tit

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɪt/ · frequency rank #15,533

## Definitions
1. A person's breast or nipple.
2. An animal's teat or udder.
3. An idiot; a fool.
4. A police officer; a "tithead".

## Etymology
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin.
Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).

## Easily confused with
- **to** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-to)
- **TV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tv)
- **TL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tl)
- **TX** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tx)
- **Tu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tu)
- **Ty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-ty)
- **TN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tn)
- **TS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-ts)
- **TM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tm)
- **TT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tt)
- **TJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tj)
- **tp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tp)
- **TK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tk)
- **two** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-two)
- **too** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-too)
- **top** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-top)
- **try** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-try)
- **tom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-tom)
- **toy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-toy)
- **ton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tit-vs-ton)

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tit