k.
/kˈeɪ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.91 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
1
Letters
1
Syllables
1
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Abbreviation of King.
Example Sentences
- "Hee wrote likewiſe to yͤ L. Iohn the infante, yͤ L. of Biſkey, and to yͤ Lady Mary of Biſkey, gouernereſſe of yͤ K. of Caſtile and Leon, and to Iames K. of Aragon, requeſting them to aid him with men of warre, as well horſemẽ as footemen againſt his aduerſarie yͤ Frẽch K. that moſt vniuſtly went about to depriue him of his inheritãce."
- "The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer."
- "a SERMON Preach’d on the Coronation day of K. Charles I."
- "a COLLECTION of ARTICLES, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Conſtitutions Eccleſiaſtical, With other PUBLICK RECORDS of the Church of England, Chiefly in the Times of K. Edward VI. Q. Elizabeth, K. James, and K. Charles I."
- "THE LIVES Of the moſt Famous Engliſh Poets, or the Honour of Parnassus; In a Brief ESSAY of the WORKS and WRITINGS of above Two Hundred of them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, To the Reign of His Preſent Majeſty King JAMES II."
- "[…] the K. made him a Knight, a Baron, a Viſcount, & an Earl in one day, […]"
Frequently Paired Words
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