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KOL

noun

KOL is a noun meaning “Initialism of key opinion leader” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-O-L and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of KOL is KOLs or Kols.

What does KOL mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of key opinion leader.

  2. 2

    influencer, particularly on social media

noun

as Kol
  1. 1

    A member of the Munda, Ho, or Oraon tribes of eastern India.

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

How do you pronounce KOL?

    KOL 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).

    Forms of KOL

    • KOLs plural
    • Kols plural

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

    How common is KOL?

    KOL appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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).