Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ks

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.52 in modern English

Syllables: ks
IPA

6

Scrabble Score

2

Letters

1

Syllables

2

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

Initialism of kill steal.

name

Abbreviation of Kansas: a state of the United States.

name

Abbreviation of South Kalimantan: a province of Indonesia.

noun

Initialism of Kaposi's sarcoma.

noun

Initialism of Keutel syndrome.

noun

Initialism of Kallmann syndrome.

noun

Initialism of Klinefelter syndrome.

noun

Initialism of kill steal.

Example Sentences

"Tom Shaheen has AIDS. He has shortness of breath, very little energy much of the time, and KS lesions that are sometimes embarrassing marks and sometimes weapons."

Usage

British usage

Inflected Forms

KSs (present, singular) KSing (participle, present) KSed (participle, past) KSed (past)

Derived Forms

KSer

Questions

What does ks mean?: Initialism of kill steal.

How to pronounce ks

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