Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kittel

/kˈɪtəl/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.20 in modern English

Syllables: kit-tel
IPA: /kˈɪtəl/

10

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

noun

A white linen or cotton robe worn by religious Ashkenazi Jews on holidays, in the synagogue, or at home when leading the Passover seder.

Example Sentences

"When I got married, my grandmother showed up at the wedding with a bottle of the whitest wine she could find, so that we wouldn’t ruin my seventy-five dollar kittel and my wife’s thousand-dollar wedding dress. (And at this point I would like to point out that I have worn my kittel at least twice a year since then, not counting the Purim that I dressed up as a doctor, and my wife has not worn her wedding dress at all, not even to other people’s weddings.)"

Etymology

Borrowed from Yiddish קיטל (kitl).

Origin

Source language: Yiddish

Inflected Forms

kittels (plural)

Homonyms

kittle kittell

Rhymes With

little it'll brittle acquittal belittle whittle non-committal committal tittle spittle noncommittal skittle

Questions

How do you pronounce kittel?: The recorded pronunciation is /kˈɪtəl/.
What does kittel mean?: A surname.
Where does kittel come from?: It is traced to Yiddish.

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