karet
noun
karet is a noun meaning “A severe punishment prescribed for certain offenses, interpreted variously as expulsion or extinction of the soul” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-A-R-E-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does karet mean?
noun
- 1
A severe punishment prescribed for certain offenses, interpreted variously as expulsion or extinction of the soul.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce karet?
Karet 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).
Forms of karet
- kareth
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is karet?
Karet appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).
Where does karet come from?
Borrowed from Hebrew כָּרֵת (karet).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).