Katie

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Katie

  • /ˈkeɪti/

Rhymes with -eɪti

proper noun Katies · Catie · Caty · Katy

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Catherine or any of its variant spellings. There is one Emily, one Charlotte, no Catherine, but two Kates, and innumerable Katies, which seems to be the latest form that Catherine has taken—Catherine, Kate, Katie.
  2. alternative, with the Alternative spelling of Katy (“the Missouri–Kansas–Texas (MKT) Railroad”).
  3. slang A king and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity with "K-T"

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Closest in meaning: kate, kathy, katy, cathy, katherine, julie, kitty, katti, killed, kattie, cate, kathie, kath, catherine, kathryn, katharine

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@misc{katie_2026,
  title = {Katie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/katie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}