The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers |
|---|---|---|
| Quhite | 2 | 1515 (conȝeour, cunȝeing) |
| Quhyte | 2 | 1584-5 (browdister); 1590 (browdstar) |
| Quhit | 1 | 1605 (cationrie) |
| Whyt | 1 | 1642 (browdstar) |