kyat
/kiˈ(j)ɑt/noun
kyat is a noun meaning “The official currency of Myanmar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-Y-A-T and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of kyat is kyats.
What does kyat mean?
noun
- 1
The official currency of Myanmar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce kyat?
- UK /kiːˈɑːt/
- US /kiˈ(j)ɑt/
- US /ˈkjɑt/
Kyat has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-kyat.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of kyat
- kyats plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is kyat?
Kyat appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Kyat in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense unit of currency:
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 kyat come from?
Borrowed from Burmese ကျပ် (kyap).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).