nite
/ˈnɐɪ̯t//ˈnaɪ̯t/
nite is the informal spelling of night.
Meaning of night
Noun
night (countable and uncountable, plural nights)
- The time when the Sun is below the horizon when the sky is dark.
- Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.
- The period of darkness beginning at the end of evening astronomical twilight when the sun is 18 degrees below the horizon, and ending at the beginning of morning astronomical twilight.
- A period of time often defined in the legal system as beginning 30 minutes after sunset, and ending 30 minutes before sunrise.
- An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- a night on the town
- Synonyms:
- evening
- A day, or at least a night.
- I stayed my friend's house for three nights.
- Nightfall.
- from noon till night
- Synonyms:
- dark
Forms of nite
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Words formed from nite
Words that rhyme with nite
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- knight
- slight
- Dwight
- height
- sight
- night
- sprite
- fight
- parasite
- site
- alight
- smite
- all right
- blight
- might
- mite
- skite
- cite
- indite
- lite
- outright
- plight
- bight
- excite
- ignite
- invite
- overnight
- uptight
- wight
- accite
- alright
- benight
- bewrite
- blite
- copyright
- despite
- dight
- disunite
- finite
- flite
- hight
- incite
- recite
- relight
- rewrite
- sleight
- spite
- spright
Questions about nite
- What is nite the informal spelling of?
- Nite is the informal spelling of night.
- How do you pronounce nite?
- Nite is pronounced /ˈnaɪ̯t/ (UK).
Words near nite in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nite (page history and authors); night (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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