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kritik

/kɹɪˈtiːk/noun

kritik is spelled K-R-I-T-I-K: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kritik means “In formal debating, an argument that challenges a certain mindset or assumption made by the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kritik is kritiks.

How many letters and syllables are in kritik?

Letters6: K-R-I-T-I-K
In writingabout once in every 14 million words; the 114,361st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like

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).

How common is kritik?

Kritik appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 114,361st 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 kritik?

  • /kɹɪˈtiːk/

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

Words people confuse with kritik

Sounds like: critique (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of kritik

  • kritiks plural

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

What does kritik mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    In formal debating, an argument that challenges a certain mindset or assumption made by the opposing team, often from the perspective of critical theory, rather than dealing directly with the topic under debate.

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

Where does kritik come from?

Borrowed from German Kritik.

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

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