khu
/kuː/noun
khu is a noun meaning “Synonym of akh (“a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-U, and it appears about once in every 20 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khu is khus.
What does khu mean?
noun
- 1
Synonym of akh (“a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed its transition to the afterlife”)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce khu?
- /kuː/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of khu
- khus plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khu?
Khu appears about once in every 20 million words in written English, the 136,649th 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).
Words people confuse with khu
Sounds like: coo, coup (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Where does khu come from?
Borrowed from Egyptian ꜣḫ, following an obsolete 19th-century reading of the word. Doublet of akh, which is based on a more accurate reading.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).