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Plural of nit

regular plural

The plural of nit is nits.

Forms of nit

Singularnit /nɪt/
Pluralnits /nɪts/
Countablecountable

Nits in a sentence

  • This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
  • And you and Clarko you did bits and I heard that this bird got nits.2017 November 7, “Courtney Jade Reply (Freestyle)”performed by Soph Aspin. From the entry do bits
  • There are only a few nits to pick.2016 June 20, Ned Lannamann, “Slog: Game of Thrones Recap! Talk Is Cheap in ‘The Battle of the Bastards’”, in The Stranger, Seattle…. From the entry nitty
  • If you find nits, it's time for some serious debugging.2011, Jay Heinrichs, Home Remedies from a Country Doctor. From the entry debug
  • By the sheer force of his powerful mind--powerful, that is, compared to the nits who bought his line of booshwa.1988 May 13, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry booshwa

Meaning of nit

  1. noun The egg of a louse.
  2. noun A young louse.
  3. noun A head louse regardless of its age.

Full definition of nit

Questions about the plural of nit

What is the plural of nit?
The plural of nit is nits.
Is nit countable?
Nit is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nit (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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