kilowatt
French, noun/ki.lɔ.wat/
kilowatt is spelled K-I-L-O-W-A-T-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,828th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Kilowatt is a French masculine noun meaning “kilowatt” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international (SI), valant 10³ watts, et dont le symbole est kW”.
What does kilowatt mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinekilowatt
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Unité de mesure de puissance du Système international (SI), valant 10³ watts, et dont le symbole est kW.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of kilowatt
- kilowatts plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce kilowatt?
- /ki.lɔ.wat/
- \ki.lo.wat\
- [ki.lo.wat]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to kilowatt
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is kilowatt in French?
kilowatt appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).