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5-Letter Words Starting With K

Our word finder knows 219 five-letter words that start with K. Common picks such as KNOWN, KINDS, KELLY lead the list, which makes it faster to spot the word your puzzle is hiding.

Words are ordered by usage frequency in a trillion-word English corpus, which is the closest thing to "most likely answer first" that a word list can offer.

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All 219 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)

Points use Scrabble US letter values

Frequently asked questions

How many five-letter words are there that start with K?

There are 219 five-letter words that start with K in the tournament word lists. The most common are KNOWN, KINDS, KELLY.

What are common five-letter words that start with K?

KNOWN, KINDS, KELLY, KNOWS, KINGS are the most frequently used. The full list of 219 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.

Are these valid Wordle words?

Nearly all of them. Wordle draws its answers from a curated list of common five-letter words, but it accepts almost any dictionary word as a guess, including the words on this page.

5-Letter words starting with K, by last letter

Starting with K in other lengths

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