kilat
[ˈk˭i(ː)lat̚]adjective
kilat is an adjective meaning “Impressive, top-notch or outstanding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-L-A-T, and it appears about once in every 71 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does kilat mean?
adjective
- 1
Impressive, top-notch or outstanding.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kilat?
- [ˈk˭i(ː)lat̚]
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of kilat
- more kilat comparative
- most kilat superlative
- gilat
- keelat
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kilat?
Kilat appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).
Where does kilat come from?
Unadapted borrowing from Malay kilat (“lightning-quick, (slang) impressive”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).