kate
/keɪt/noun
kate is spelled K-A-T-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Kate, the name). As a noun, kate means “The brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kate is kates.
How many letters and syllables are in kate?
| Letters | 4: K-A-T-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 4,015th 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 kate?
Kate appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 4,015th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Kate, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce kate?
- /keɪt/
Kate 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-kate.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with kate?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as kate.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: take, teak, keta.
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 kate
- kates plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does kate mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
UKThe brambling finch, Fringilla montifringilla.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).