weet
/wiːt/
weet verb: to know. Also the alternative form of wet.
Verb
weet (third-person singular simple present weets, present participle weeting, simple past and past participle weeted)
- To know.
- But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long toyle.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 87
- The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
Also used as
weet is also the alternative form of wet.
Forms of weet
| third-person singular present | weets |
|---|---|
| present participle | weeting |
| past participle | weeted |
| past | weeted |
Origin of weet
From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.
Phrases with weet
Words that rhyme with weet
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- entreat
- fleet
- retreat
- treat
- complete
- conceit
- repeat
- concrete
- discrete
- bittersweet
- suite
- cheat
- cleat
- deceit
- greet
- unseat
- compete
- defeat
- delete
- effete
- elite
- escheat
- indiscrete
- leet
- pleat
- skeet
- sleet
- accrete
- beet
- bleat
- gleet
- ifrit
- incomplete
- overeat
- overheat
- petite
- replete
- superheat
- teat
- tweet
- wheat
- yeet
- Bereshit
- Bow Street
- Crete
- discreet
- downbeat
- jeet
Questions about weet
- What does weet mean?
- Weet means to know.
- What part of speech is weet?
- Weet is a verb.
- How do you pronounce weet?
- Weet is pronounced /wiːt/.
- What is the past tense of weet?
- The past tense of weet is weeted.
Words near weet in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: weet (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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