5-Letter Words With K as the Third Letter
There are 158 five-letter words with K as the third letter. The list below ranks them by real-world frequency, so everyday words like POKER, MAKES, TAKEN appear before the obscurities.
Every entry comes from the tournament word lists, the kind of list used in Wordle, Scrabble, and Words With Friends, so each one is a genuine dictionary word.
Most common
- poker11
- makes11
- taken9
- asked10
- takes9
- naked10
- maker11
- lakes9
- baker11
- jokes16
- liked10
- bikes11
- likes9
- token9
- cakes11
- baked12
- ankle9
- biker11
- mikes11
- dukes10
All 158 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- fakes 12
- joker 16
- hikes 12
- dykes 13
- asker 9
- wakes 12
- sykes 12
- nukes 9
- tikes 9
- hiker 12
- yikes 12
- alkyl 12
- taker 9
- poked 12
- askew 12
- joked 17
- pikes 11
- faked 13
- hakim 14
- inked 10
- rakes 9
- dikes 10
- takin 9
- woken 12
- pekin 11
- lakhs 12
- hiked 13
- jakes 16
- pokes 11
- esker 9
- pokey 14
- raked 10
- sakes 9
- waker 12
- hokey 15
- sokol 9
- laker 9
- tykes 12
- tikka 13
- bakes 11
- sikes 9
- nuked 10
- yokes 12
- liken 9
- irked 10
- jukes 16
- inker 9
- alkyd 13
- cokes 11
- pekoe 11
- waked 13
- caked 12
- pukka 15
- yoked 13
- piker 11
- puked 12
- oaken 9
- fakir 12
- faker 12
- waken 12
- makar 11
- tokay 12
- toker 9
- yokel 12
- rekey 12
- hokum 14
- jokey 19
- saker 9
- raker 9
- biked 12
- hokes 12
- miked 12
- vakil 12
- ocker 11
- pukes 11
- hakes 12
- liker 9
- mokes 11
- makos 11
- sakis 9
- nakfa 12
- coked 12
- diked 11
- yukky 19
- tikis 9
- eikon 9
- pikas 11
- kukri 13
- tokes 9
- dekko 14
- ackee 11
- alkie 9
- ankhs 12
- ankus 9
- askoi 9
- askos 9
- bikie 11
- cakey 14
- cukes 11
- deked 11
- dekes 10
- diker 10
- dikey 13
- duked 11
- dyked 14
- dykey 16
- eskar 9
- fakey 15
- fykes 15
- hakus 12
- hoked 13
- hokku 16
- icker 11
- inkle 9
- juked 17
- jukus 16
- kakas 13
- kakis 13
- kikes 13
- laked 10
- mikra 11
- oakum 11
- pekan 11
- pekes 11
- piked 12
- pikis 11
- rakee 9
- rakis 9
- rakus 9
- ryked 13
- rykes 12
- sikas 9
- siker 9
- sokes 9
- takas 9
- toked 10
- tsked 10
- wekas 12
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with K as the third letter?
There are 158 five-letter words with K as the third letter in the tournament word lists. The most common are POKER, MAKES, TAKEN.
What are common five-letter words with K as the third letter?
POKER, MAKES, TAKEN, ASKED, TAKES are the most frequently used. The full list of 158 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.