kilohertz

Other forms of kilohertz

plural

kilohertzes·

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 kilohertz

What does kilohertz mean?

kilohertz means "one thousand periods per second".

How many syllables are in kilohertz?

kilohertz has 3 syllables: ki-lo-hertz. The stress falls on "ki".

What is another word for kilohertz?

Close synonyms include kHz, 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 kilohertz a common word?

kilohertz 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.