Toolkit

How to spell toolkit

7 letters · 2 syllables

How to pronounce toolkit

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does toolkit mean?

1. nounA set of tools or resources kept together for a particular task.

Toolkit in a sentence

• The plumber reached into his toolkit for a wrench.

• The company released a marketing toolkit with templates and guidelines.

Where does toolkit come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

This is a transparent English compound, joining 'tool' and 'kit'. 'Tool' descends from Old English 'tol', meaning an instrument or implement, which itself traces back to a Germanic root tied to making or preparing. 'Kit' arrived later, around the 1300s, from Middle Dutch 'kitte', a word for a wooden tankard or container, which broadened to mean the set of gear a soldier or worker carried in such a container. The two words were combined in the modern era to name a portable collection of tools, and the figurative sense (a set of resources or methods, as in a 'software toolkit') grew naturally from there. Because both halves are short, familiar words written exactly as they sound, the only spelling point to remember is that it is now a single closed compound rather than two words or a hyphenated form.

How the word is built

• tool (instrument)
• kit (set of equipment)