Words starting with K

Every word in the dictionary whose first letter is K — 1,716 of 172,823.

Words
1,716
Everyday
247in the size-ranked core
Longest
222 words tie
Shortest
2ka

Showing the first 300 of 1,716, everyday words first and alphabetical inside each group. The longer openings below cut this list into readable pieces.

What is in this list

2 words tie at 22 letters: keratoconjunctivitides and keratoconjunctivitises.

They run from 2 to 22 letters; 318 of them have 7 letters, more than any other length.

247 of them — 14% — are in the everyday tier; the rest are filed as rarer.

Every one of them contains an K.

The one furthest down the tiers is keratoconjunctivitides, filed in the unranked list.

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Longer openings that begin with K

Elsewhere

Ordered everyday words first, then alphabetical inside each group — the same rule on every list here. At most 300 are printed on one page.