About The Word “Know”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “know”, including spelling, parts of speech, “know” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “know”

Know is spelled k-n-o-w and has 4 letters.


How to pronounce “know”

IPA pronunciation: /noʊ/

Phonetic pronunciation:


How many vowels and consonants in “know”

The word “know” has 3 consonants and 1 vowels.


How many syllables in “know”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “know”.


What type of word is “know”?

The word "know" can be a verb and noun.

Meaning of the word “know”

To know is to possess a clear and certain understanding or awareness of a fact, concept, or skill, often acquired through experience, learning, or perception.

Origin of the word “know”

The word 'know' has its origins in the Old English word 'cnawan', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic '*knew-', and is related to the Latin word 'gnoscere' and the Greek word 'gignoskein', both meaning 'to know'.

Example sentences with the word “know”

Verb:
  1. To know the truth, one must seek it diligently.
Verb:
  1. She knows how to play the piano beautifully.
Verb:
  1. The detective finally knew who the culprit was after examining all the evidence.
Verb:
  1. When it comes to cooking, he knows his way around the kitchen.

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Synonyms for “know”

Other words for “know” include understand, comprehend, grasp, recognize, discern, be aware of, be familiar with.

Word families for “know”

Dunno, knew, knowable, knowed, knowing, knowingly, known, knows, unknowable, unknowing, unknowingly, unknown, unknowns

Common misspellings of “know”

Knuw

Similar words to “know”

Knowe, known, knows, now, aknow, reknow, knower

Scrambled words derived from “know”

Knwo, nwok, nkwo, konw, kwon, wkno, wnok, onkw, nowk, kown, oknw, nwko, wonk, onwk, okwn, wokn, kwno, owkn, ownk, nokw, nkow, wkon

Words that rhyme with “know”

Go, show, grow, throw, slow, row, flow, snow, glow, low, mow, toe, sew, foe, crow

Crossword clues for “know”

Acquaintance with hesitation, initially (4).

Anagrams of “know”

Wonk

Fun facts about the word “know”

The word “know” has a Scrabble score of 11 and reads wonk in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “know”

Kilo November Oscar Whiskey

The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“know” spelled in Morse code

-.- -. --- .-- (dash dot dash dash dot dash dash dash dot dash dash).

Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “know”

Lowercase word: 107 110 111 119

Uppercase word: 75 78 79 87

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “know”

Lowercase word: 1101011 1101110 1101111 1110111

Uppercase word: 1001011 1001110 1001111 1010111

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “know”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x6B 0x6E 0x6F 0x77

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x4B 0x4E 0x4F 0x57

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “know”

Lowercase: 107 110 111 119

Upprcase: 75 78 79 87

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “know”

Lowercase: 153 156 157 167

Upprcase: 113 116 117 127

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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