khz

Other forms of khz

plural

khzes·

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 khz

What does khz mean?

khz means "one thousand periods per second".

How many syllables are in khz?

khz has 1 syllable: khz.

What is another word for khz?

Close synonyms include kilohertz, kilocycle per second, kilocycle, kc. 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 khz a common word?

khz 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.