kilometer

Other forms of kilometer

plural

kilometers·

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 kilometer

What does kilometer mean?

kilometer means "a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)".

How many syllables are in kilometer?

kilometer has 4 syllables: ki-lo-me-ter. The stress falls on "lo". In IPA it is /kəˈlɑmətɚ/.

What is another word for kilometer?

Close synonyms include kilometre, km, klick. 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 kilometer a common word?

kilometer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.