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kitty

kit·ty/ˈkɪti/noun

kitty is spelled K-I-T-T-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables (kit·ty). It appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Kitty, the name). As a noun, kitty means “A young cat; a kitten” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kitty is kitties.

How many letters and syllables are in kitty?

Letters5: K-I-T-T-Y
Syllables2: kit·ty
In writing9.5 times per million words; the 7,338th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 kitty?

Kitty appears 9.5 times per million words in written English, the 7,338th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Kitty, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce kitty?

  • UK /ˈkɪti/
  • US /ˈkɪti/
  • US [ˈkʰɪɾi]

Kitty has 2 syllables, split kit·ty in writing.

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

What rhymes with kitty?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as kitty from its last stressed vowel (/ɪti/):

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 kitty

  • kitties plural
  • kittie
  • kbity
  • kibty
  • kity

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

What does kitty mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalA young cat; a kitten.

    He said there was a beast with fangs in the alley, but it turned out to be a cute little kitty.

  2. 2

    informalAn adult cat; also (often childish), sometimes in the form Kitty: a pet name for a cat of any age.

    Here, kitty kitty! Nice kitty!

  3. 3

    slangSynonym of pussy (“vulva and/or vagina”).

  4. 4

    Synonym of jack (“a small, typically white, ball used as the target ball in bowls”).

  5. 5

    slangA pool of money to which card players contribute a portion of their winnings, which is used for paying shared expenses such as the cost of the premises or refreshments; (by extension) any pool of money to which people contribute for shared expenses or other joint purposes; also, any fund of liquid assets set aside for future use.

  6. 6

    slangSynonym of pot (“a quantity of money available to be won in a round or a game”).

  7. 7

    slangSynonym of widow (“an additional hand of playing cards dealt face-down in some card games, to be used by the highest bidder”).

  8. 8

    slangA jail, a prison; also, a lockup.

  9. 9

    UKIn full kitty-wren: synonym of wren (“any bird of the family Troglodytidae; specifically the Eurasian wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)”).

  10. 10

    UKarchaicSynonym of kittiwake (“either of two small gulls in the genus Rissa of the family Laridae; specifically (Ireland, UK), the black-legged kittiwake (Rissa tridactyla)”).

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

Kitty in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchchaton, minet ((informal) young cat – see also kitten), mimi (pet name for a cat of any age), cagnotte (pool of money to which card players contribute…)
GermanKätzchen, Mieze ((informal) young cat – see also kitten), Spielkasse (pool of money to which card players contribute…)
Portuguesegatinho ((informal) young cat – see also kitten), vaquinha (pool of money to which card players contribute…)
Spanishgatito, minino, gatico, michi ((informal) young cat – see also kitten), bote, pozo (pool of money to which card players contribute…)

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 kitty come from?

From kitt(en) + -y (diminutive suffix). Compare Dutch katje (“kitty”). Etymology 1 sense 2 (“vulva and/or vagina”) is probably modelled after the use of pussy to refer to the body part, from the appearance of an unshaven vulva.

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

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