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kit-kat

noun

kit-kat is a noun meaning “Alternative form of kit-cat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-I-T-K-A-T. The plural of kit-kat is kit-kats.

What does kit-kat mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of kit-cat.

noun

as Kit Kat
  1. 1

    A chocolate-covered wafer bar confection produced by Nestlé and Hershey.

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

How do you pronounce kit-kat?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Kit_Kat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of kit-kat

  • kit-kats plural

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

Words people confuse with kit-kat

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Also written: kit-cat, kitkat (one word or two).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does kit-kat come from?

Brand name. Originally trademarked by the Rowntree's company in 1911. Apparently named after the Kit-Cat Club, which got its name from a local pastry chef, Christopher Catt/Catling (sources differ on the surname), who was nicknamed “Kit” and supplied the club with meat pies that he called “Kit-Cats”.

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