nit
Definitions
Noun
- A luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
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As a Fragment
Words that contain the term "nit".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | united | 3 | 482 |
| 2 | community | 4 | 231 |
| 3 | opportunity | 5 | 121 |
| 4 | unit | 2 | 103 |
| 5 | units | 2 | 87 |
| 6 | unity | 3 | 71 |
| 7 | initial | 3 | 68 |
| 8 | opportunities | 5 | 51 |
| 9 | recognition | 4 | 44 |
| 10 | communities | 4 | 41 |
| 11 | furniture | 3 | 39 |
| 12 | definition | 4 | 38 |
| 13 | definite | 3 | 37 |
| 14 | dignity | 3 | 35 |
| 15 | initiative | 4 | 32 |
| 16 | christianity | 5 | 31 |
| 17 | magnitude | 3 | 29 |
| 18 | humanity | 4 | 28 |
| 19 | definitely | 4 | 21 |
| 20 | infinite | 3 | 19 |
| 21 | ammunition | 4 | 18 |
| 22 | initially | 4 | 18 |
| 23 | juanita | 3 | 15 |
| 24 | monitoring | 4 | 13 |
| 25 | initiated | 5 | 12 |
| 26 | nitrogen | 3 | 12 |
| 27 | finite | 2 | 11 |
| 28 | sanitation | 4 | 11 |
| 29 | knit | 1 | 10 |
| 30 | unite | 2 | 10 |
| 31 | indefinite | 4 | 8 |
| 32 | knitted | 2 | 8 |
| 33 | unitarian | 5 | 8 |
| 34 | divinity | 4 | 7 |
| 35 | immunity | 4 | 7 |
| 36 | initiation | 5 | 7 |
| 37 | vanity | 3 | 7 |
| 38 | definitions | 4 | 6 |
| 39 | eternity | 4 | 6 |
| 40 | fraternity | 4 | 6 |
| 41 | indefinitely | 5 | 6 |
| 42 | modernity | 4 | 6 |
| 43 | serenity | 4 | 6 |
| 44 | vicinity | 4 | 6 |
| 45 | zenith | 2 | 6 |
| 46 | affinity | 4 | 5 |
| 47 | definitive | 4 | 5 |
| 48 | ignition | 3 | 5 |
| 49 | initiate | 4 | 5 |
| 50 | trinity | 3 | 5 |
| 51 | initiating | 5 | 4 |
| 52 | janitor | 3 | 4 |
| 53 | lignite | 2 | 4 |
| 54 | profanity | 4 | 4 |
| 55 | sanitary | 4 | 4 |
| 56 | sanity | 3 | 4 |
| 57 | virginity | 4 | 4 |
| 58 | admonitions | 4 | 3 |
| 59 | community's | 4 | 3 |
| 60 | dignitaries | 4 | 3 |
| 61 | disunity | 4 | 3 |
| 62 | divinities | 4 | 3 |
| 63 | granite | 2 | 3 |
| 64 | humanitarian | 6 | 3 |
| 65 | impunity | 4 | 3 |
| 66 | indignities | 4 | 3 |
| 67 | infinitely | 4 | 3 |
| 68 | infinitesimal | 6 | 3 |
| 69 | initials | 3 | 3 |
| 70 | insanity | 4 | 3 |
| 71 | janitors | 3 | 3 |
| 72 | monitor | 3 | 3 |
| 73 | munitions | 3 | 3 |
| 74 | nitrate | 2 | 3 |
| 75 | anita | 3 | 2 |
| 76 | cognitive | 3 | 2 |
| 77 | femininity | 5 | 2 |
| 78 | humanities | 4 | 2 |
| 79 | ignite | 2 | 2 |
| 80 | indemnity | 4 | 2 |
| 81 | infinitum | 4 | 2 |
| 82 | infinity | 4 | 2 |
| 83 | initiates | 4 | 2 |
| 84 | initiator | 5 | 2 |
| 85 | mennonite | 3 | 2 |
| 86 | monitors | 3 | 2 |
| 87 | obscenities | 4 | 2 |
| 88 | premonition | 4 | 2 |
| 89 | reunited | 4 | 2 |
| 90 | suburbanite | 4 | 2 |
| 91 | uninitiated | 6 | 2 |
| 92 | uniting | 3 | 2 |
| 93 | admonition | 4 | 1 |
| 94 | affinities | 4 | 1 |
| 95 | benita | 3 | 1 |
| 96 | bonito | 3 | 1 |
| 97 | congenital | 4 | 1 |
| 98 | fraternities | 4 | 1 |
| 99 | ignited | 3 | 1 |
| 100 | infinitive | 4 | 1 |
| 101 | initialed | 3 | 1 |
| 102 | knitting | 2 | 1 |
| 103 | magnitudes | 3 | 1 |
| 104 | manitoba | 4 | 1 |
| 105 | masculinity | 5 | 1 |
| 106 | mennonites | 3 | 1 |
| 107 | monitored | 3 | 1 |
| 108 | nitrates | 2 | 1 |
| 109 | nitroglycerine | 5 | 1 |
| 110 | obscenity | 4 | 1 |
| 111 | premonitions | 4 | 1 |
| 112 | premonitory | 5 | 1 |
| 113 | punitive | 3 | 1 |
| 114 | redefinition | 5 | 1 |
| 115 | reunite | 3 | 1 |
| 116 | reuniting | 4 | 1 |
| 117 | solemnity | 4 | 1 |
| 118 | suburbanites | 4 | 1 |
| 119 | unites | 2 | 1 |
| 120 | vanities | 3 | 1 |
| 121 | admonitory | 5 | 0 |
| 122 | alkalinity | 5 | 0 |
| 123 | amenities | 4 | 0 |
| 124 | amenity | 4 | 0 |
| 125 | ammonite | 3 | 0 |
| 126 | ammonites | 3 | 0 |
| 127 | ammunitions | 4 | 0 |
| 128 | anitec | 3 | 0 |
| 129 | anitole | 3 | 0 |
| 130 | arvanitis | 4 | 0 |
| 131 | benites | 2 | 0 |
| 132 | benitez | 3 | 0 |
| 133 | benito | 3 | 0 |
| 134 | bennitt | 2 | 0 |
| 135 | bentonite | 3 | 0 |
| 136 | bernita | 3 | 0 |
| 137 | bonita | 3 | 0 |
| 138 | branitzky | 3 | 0 |
| 139 | caminiti | 4 | 0 |
| 140 | canaanite | 3 | 0 |
| 141 | careunit | 3 | 0 |
| 142 | careunits | 3 | 0 |
| 143 | carpenito | 4 | 0 |
| 144 | cenith | 2 | 0 |
| 145 | cenith's | 2 | 0 |
| 146 | christianity's | 5 | 0 |
| 147 | clintonite | 3 | 0 |
| 148 | clintonites | 3 | 0 |
| 149 | cognition | 3 | 0 |
| 150 | communitywide | 5 | 0 |
| 151 | couponite | 3 | 0 |
| 152 | couponites | 3 | 0 |
| 153 | daffynition | 4 | 0 |
| 154 | definitively | 5 | 0 |
| 155 | dignitary | 4 | 0 |
| 156 | dimunition | 4 | 0 |
| 157 | divinitas | 4 | 0 |
| 158 | dunite | 2 | 0 |
| 159 | enitt | 2 | 0 |
| 160 | eternit | 3 | 0 |
| 161 | franklinite | 3 | 0 |
| 162 | fulginiti | 4 | 0 |
| 163 | furniture's | 3 | 0 |
| 164 | genital | 3 | 0 |
| 165 | genitalia | 4 | 0 |
| 166 | genitals | 3 | 0 |
| 167 | granitic | 3 | 0 |
| 168 | granito | 3 | 0 |
| 169 | hannity | 3 | 0 |
| 170 | hignite | 2 | 0 |
| 171 | humanitarians | 6 | 0 |
| 172 | humanity's | 4 | 0 |
| 173 | ignites | 2 | 0 |
| 174 | igniting | 3 | 0 |
| 175 | immunities | 4 | 0 |
| 176 | incognito | 4 | 0 |
| 177 | indemnities | 4 | 0 |
| 178 | indignity | 4 | 0 |
| 179 | infiniti | 4 | 0 |
| 180 | ingenito | 4 | 0 |
| 181 | inhumanity | 5 | 0 |
| 182 | initable | 4 | 0 |
| 183 | initialing | 4 | 0 |
| 184 | initialize | 4 | 0 |
| 185 | initialized | 4 | 0 |
| 186 | initialling | 4 | 0 |
| 187 | initiatives | 4 | 0 |
| 188 | initiators | 5 | 0 |
| 189 | initio | 4 | 0 |
| 190 | janitorial | 5 | 0 |
| 191 | kanitz | 2 | 0 |
| 192 | karanitski | 4 | 0 |
| 193 | kemnitz | 2 | 0 |
| 194 | kernite | 2 | 0 |
| 195 | kienitz | 2 | 0 |
| 196 | knits | 1 | 0 |
| 197 | knittel | 2 | 0 |
| 198 | knitter | 2 | 0 |
| 199 | knittle | 2 | 0 |
| 200 | knitwear | 2 | 0 |
| 201 | konitzer | 3 | 0 |
| 202 | kruttschnitt | 2 | 0 |
| 203 | kryptonite | 3 | 0 |
| 204 | kurnit | 2 | 0 |
| 205 | lenita | 3 | 0 |
| 206 | limonite | 3 | 0 |
| 207 | magnitogorsk | 4 | 0 |
| 208 | manitowoc | 4 | 0 |
| 209 | maronite | 3 | 0 |
| 210 | masonite | 3 | 0 |
| 211 | maternity | 4 | 0 |
| 212 | mcginnity | 4 | 0 |
| 213 | mcnitt | 2 | 0 |
| 214 | minit | 2 | 0 |
| 215 | minitel | 3 | 0 |
| 216 | minniti | 3 | 0 |
| 217 | misrecognition | 5 | 0 |
| 218 | monit | 2 | 0 |
| 219 | monzonite | 3 | 0 |
| 220 | munition | 3 | 0 |
| 221 | nit | 1 | 0 |
| 222 | nita | 2 | 0 |
| 223 | nite | 1 | 0 |
| 224 | nithuekan | 3 | 0 |
| 225 | nithuekan's | 3 | 0 |
| 226 | nitka | 2 | 0 |
| 227 | nito | 2 | 0 |
| 228 | nitpick | 2 | 0 |
| 229 | nitpicking | 3 | 0 |
| 230 | nitpicky | 3 | 0 |
| 231 | nitrating | 3 | 0 |
| 232 | nitration | 3 | 0 |
| 233 | nitric | 2 | 0 |
| 234 | nitride | 2 | 0 |
| 235 | nitriles | 2 | 0 |
| 236 | nitro | 2 | 0 |
| 237 | nitrocellulose | 5 | 0 |
| 238 | nitrogenous | 4 | 0 |
| 239 | nitroglycerin | 5 | 0 |
| 240 | nitrosamines | 4 | 0 |
| 241 | nitrosomine | 4 | 0 |
| 242 | nitrosomines | 4 | 0 |
| 243 | nitrous | 2 | 0 |
| 244 | nitsa | 2 | 0 |
| 245 | nitsch | 1 | 0 |
| 246 | nitsche | 1 | 0 |
| 247 | nitschke | 1 | 0 |
| 248 | nitta | 2 | 0 |
| 249 | nitto | 2 | 0 |
| 250 | nitty | 2 | 0 |
| 251 | nitz | 1 | 0 |
| 252 | nitza | 2 | 0 |
| 253 | nitza's | 2 | 0 |
| 254 | nitzberg | 2 | 0 |
| 255 | nitze | 2 | 0 |
| 256 | nitzel | 2 | 0 |
| 257 | nitzsche | 1 | 0 |
| 258 | ornithological | 6 | 0 |
| 259 | ornithology | 5 | 0 |
| 260 | overnite | 3 | 0 |
| 261 | paternity | 4 | 0 |
| 262 | penitent | 3 | 0 |
| 263 | penitentiaries | 5 | 0 |
| 264 | penitentiary | 5 | 0 |
| 265 | planitzer | 3 | 0 |
| 266 | preignition | 4 | 0 |
| 267 | progenitor | 4 | 0 |
| 268 | punit | 2 | 0 |
| 269 | reaganite | 3 | 0 |
| 270 | reaganites | 3 | 0 |
| 271 | recognition's | 4 | 0 |
| 272 | reignite | 3 | 0 |
| 273 | reignited | 4 | 0 |
| 274 | reigniting | 4 | 0 |
| 275 | reinitz | 2 | 0 |
| 276 | renita | 3 | 0 |
| 277 | reunites | 3 | 0 |
| 278 | riunite | 3 | 0 |
| 279 | salinity | 4 | 0 |
| 280 | samsonite | 3 | 0 |
| 281 | sanitize | 3 | 0 |
| 282 | sanitized | 3 | 0 |
| 283 | sanitizing | 4 | 0 |
| 284 | schnitker | 2 | 0 |
| 285 | schnittke | 2 | 0 |
| 286 | schnitz | 1 | 0 |
| 287 | schnitzer | 2 | 0 |
| 288 | schnitzler | 2 | 0 |
| 289 | selenite | 3 | 0 |
| 290 | snitch | 1 | 0 |
| 291 | snitching | 2 | 0 |
| 292 | snitker | 2 | 0 |
| 293 | snitzer | 2 | 0 |
| 294 | solzhenitsyn | 4 | 0 |
| 295 | technitrol | 3 | 0 |
| 296 | tonite | 2 | 0 |
| 297 | trinity's | 3 | 0 |
| 298 | unit's | 2 | 0 |
| 299 | unita | 3 | 0 |
| 300 | unitaf | 3 | 0 |
| 301 | unitary | 4 | 0 |
| 302 | unitas | 3 | 0 |
| 303 | united's | 3 | 0 |
| 304 | unitedbank | 4 | 0 |
| 305 | unitek | 3 | 0 |
| 306 | unitel | 3 | 0 |
| 307 | unitholder | 4 | 0 |
| 308 | unitholders | 4 | 0 |
| 309 | unitrin | 3 | 0 |
| 310 | unitrin's | 3 | 0 |
| 311 | unitrode | 3 | 0 |
| 312 | unitrode's | 3 | 0 |
| 313 | units' | 2 | 0 |
| 314 | unsanitary | 5 | 0 |
| 315 | urbanite | 3 | 0 |
| 316 | urbanites | 3 | 0 |
| 317 | venita | 3 | 0 |
| 318 | vernita | 3 | 0 |
| 319 | vernitron | 3 | 0 |
| 320 | vinita | 3 | 0 |
| 321 | vranitzky | 3 | 0 |
| 322 | wellnitz | 2 | 0 |
| 323 | whodunit | 3 | 0 |
| 324 | whodunits | 3 | 0 |
| 325 | wienerschnitzel | 4 | 0 |
| 326 | wienerschnitzel's | 4 | 0 |
| 327 | zenith's | 2 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "nit".
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "nit" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "nit" in a sentence.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "nit" in the same piece of text.
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|
Results:
Term
Definitions: 2
Fragments: 327
Sound Alikes: 1
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 5
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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