k

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the eleventh letter of the English alphabet

   In the word knot, the k is silent and never pronounced.

The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, from Latin 'K', from Greek 'kappa', borrowed from the Phoenician letter 'kaph' ('palm of the hand'), the name and shape descending from the earlier Semitic pictograph.

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