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kist

noun, verb

kist is spelled K-I-S-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kist means “A chest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kist is kists or œkists.

How many letters and syllables are in kist?

Letters4: K-I-S-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 10 million words; the 94,827th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is kist?

Kist appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th 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 pronounce kist?

    Kist has one syllable (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).

    What rhymes with kist?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as kist.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: skit.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of kist

    • kists plural, present, singular, he/she/it
    • kisting participle, present
    • kisted participle, past
    • œkists plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does kist mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      ScotlandA chest.

    2. 2

      ScotlandA coffin.

    3. 3

      Alternative form of cist (“crypt”).

    4. 4

      BritishIndiaAn individual installment of the yearly land revenue.

    verb

    1. 1

      ScotlandTo place in a coffin.

    noun

    as Kist
    1. 1

      Synonym of Nakh, a Caucasian people, particularly the Nakh living in Georgia.

    noun

    as œkist
    1. 1

      Alternative form of oecist.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does kist come from?

    Possibly borrowed from Old Norse kista (“chest”); but see also English cist (“crypt”).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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