# kid

> English word · Noun · IPA /kɪd/ · frequency rank #1,107

## Definitions
1. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
2. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
3. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
4. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
5. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
6. A young goat.
7. A young goat.
8. A young goat.
9. A young antelope.
10. A deception; an act of kidding somebody.
11. A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

## Etymology
From Middle English kide, from Old Norse kið (“young goat”), from Proto-Germanic *kidją, *kittīną (“goatling, kid”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaydn-, *ǵʰaydn- (“goat”) or Proto-Indo-European *gidʰ- (“kid, goatling, little goat”). Compare Swedish and Danish kid, German Kitz and Kitze, Albanian kedh and kec. The sense of child has been in use since the 1590s as slang, and since the 1840s in informal use.

## Easily confused with
- **ky** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-ky)
- **ko** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-ko)
- **Ku** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-ku)
- **KS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-ks)
- **KT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kt)
- **kk** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kk)
- **KL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kl)
- **KP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kp)
- **KJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kj)
- **Kim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kim)
- **kit** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kit)
- **kin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kin)
- **kun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kun)
- **KKK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kkk)
- **Koh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-koh)
- **KMS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kms)
- **koi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-koi)
- **kip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kip)
- **Kos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-kos)
- **Koo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/kid-vs-koo)

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