kilobit
noun
kilobit is a noun meaning “One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-L-O-B-I-T and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 79 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kilobit is kilobits.
What does kilobit mean?
noun
- 1
One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bits.
- 2
rarea kibibit
- 3
informalone kilobit per second
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kilobit?
- US
Kilobit has 3 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-kilobit.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kilobit
- kilobits plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kilobit?
Kilobit appears about once in every 79 million words in written English, the 282,993rd 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).
How do you abbreviate kilobit?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of kilobit: Kb, kbit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Kilobit in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 1000 bits:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | kilobit |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does kilobit come from?
c. 1960, from kilo- (“thousand”) + bit.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).