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kent

/kɛnt/noun, verb

kent is spelled K-E-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Kent, the name). As a noun, kent means “A shepherd's staff” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kent is kents.

How many letters and syllables are in kent?

Letters4: K-E-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing15 times per million words; the 5,407th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is kent?

Kent appears 15 times per million words in written English, the 5,407th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Kent, 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 kent?

  • /kɛnt/

Kent 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: En-us-kent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of kent

  • kents plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • kenting participle, present
  • kented participle, past

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

What does kent mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA shepherd's staff.

  2. 2

    ScotlandA pole or pike.

  3. 3

    slangcunt.

verb

  1. 1

    ScotlandTo propel (a boat) using a pole.

  2. 2

    simple past and past participle of ken (a form of ken)

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

Where does kent come from?

Perhaps a variant of the verb cant.

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

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