kat
noun
kat is spelled K-A-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kat means “An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kat is kats.
How many letters and syllables are in kat?
| Letters | 3: K-A-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is kat?
Kat appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 kat?
Kat has one syllable (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).
Words people confuse with kat
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with kat?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as kat.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tak.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of kat
- kats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does kat mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.
- 2
Alternative spelling of khat.
- 3
Alternative form of gat.
phrase
- 1
Initialism of kill all taigs.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does kat come from?
From Egyptian kꜣt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).