kb

Other forms of kb

plural

kbs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about kb

What does kb mean?

kb means "a unit of information equal to 1000 bits". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in kb?

kb has 1 syllable: kb.

What is another word for kb?

Close synonyms include kilobit, kbit, kilobyte, K, kilobyte. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is kb a common word?

kb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.