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kapow

/kəˈpaʊ/interjection, noun

kapow is spelled K-A-P-O-W: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, kapow means “Alternative spelling of kerpow” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in kapow?

Letters5: K-A-P-O-W
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 125,655th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is kapow?

Kapow appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce kapow?

  • /kəˈpaʊ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of kapow

  • kapow!
  • kapows plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does kapow mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

interjection

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of kerpow.

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of kerpow.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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