karat
noun
karat is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of carat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-R-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of karat is karats.
What does karat mean?
noun
- 1
USAlternative spelling of carat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce karat?
Karat has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-karat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of karat
- karats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is karat?
Karat appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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).
Words people confuse with karat
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: carat.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).