US /keɪ/ UK /keɪ/
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noun

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    the eleventh letter of the English alphabet

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

Etymology

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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