# Kermit

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈkɜːmɪt/ · frequency rank #25,815

## Definitions
1. A male given name from Manx.
2. The puppet Kermit the Frog, host of The Muppet Show and a frequent character in Sesame Street, originally performed by creator Jim Henson.
3. An asynchronous file transfer protocol, often used for communication between different types of minicomputer or mainframe.
4. A city, the county seat of Winkler County, Texas, named after Kermit Roosevelt.
5. A town in Mingo County, West Virginia, named after Kermit Roosevelt.

## Etymology
Variant of English and Manx Kermode, cognate with Irish Mac Diarmata and Scots Gaelic McDiarmid (“son of Dermot”). Popularized in the US by the naming of Kermit Roosevelt (after a Manx ancestor). The computing sense is named after the Sesame Street character, but later provided with a backronym ("KL10 Error-Free Reciprocal Microprocessor Interchange over TTY").

## Easily confused with
- **karmic** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/karmic-vs-kermit)

## Common misspellings (9)
`ekrmit`, `kemrit`, `kerimt`, `kermitt`, `kermmit`, `kermti`, `kerrmit`, `kkermit`, `kremit`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/kermit