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Plural of wit

regular plural

The plural of wit is wits.

Forms of wit

Singularwit /wɪt/
Pluralwits /wɪts/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Wits in a sentence

  • He's gone completely out of his wits.
  • Keep your wits about you.
  • Are you ready to pit your wits against one of the world's greatest puzzles?From the entry pit
  • Kendall conceded defeat once she realized she could not win in a battle of wits.From the entry concede
  • He scared me out of my wits, sneaking up behind me in the dark like that.From the entry scare someone out of their wits

Meaning of wit

  1. noun Sanity.
  2. noun The senses.
  3. noun Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.

Full definition of wit

Questions about the plural of wit

What is the plural of wit?
The plural of wit is wits.
Is wit countable?
Wit is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wit (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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