5 Letter Words with K as 1st and A as 3rd Letter

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  • KAAMA
  • KHADI
  • KHAKI
  • KHANS
  • KHATS
  • KHAYA
  • KIAAT
  • KIANG
  • KNACK
  • KNAPS
  • KNARL
  • KNARS
  • KNAVE
  • KOALA
  • KOANS
  • KRAAL
  • KRAFT
  • KRAIT
  • KRANG
  • KRANS
  • KRAUT
  • KVASS
  • KYACK
  • KYANG
  • KYARS
  • KYATS
Use ? for unknowns

Twenty six words put K first and A third, and no opening letter takes more than a quarter of them.

The K and A Words Never Settle on One Opening

R takes the second box in six words, H and N in five each and Y in four. I, O and A share what is left. With twenty six words spread that widely, the second box is a weak place to aim.

The K and A Words You Would Actually Know

KNAVE, KOALA, KHAKI and KRAUT are the entries most people carry. KNACK and KRAIT are reachable at a push.

Everything else here is specialised. KAAMA, KIAAT, KYACK, KRANG and KVASS are all valid but none would occur to you during a puzzle, so the page plays much smaller than twenty six.

The Silent K in KNACK and KNAVE

N takes the second box in five words and every one of them opens with a K nobody pronounces. KNACK, KNAPS, KNARL, KNARS and KNAVE are the whole set, and that silent K is exactly why players forget to try them.

S closes nine of the twenty six, thirty five percent, well ahead of T on four. N leads the fourth box on six words.

Four words repeat a letter, so a visible double narrows the page usefully on the rare occasion one shows up.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is KOALA or KNAVE the better opening

KOALA uses more common letters and tests O in the second box. KNAVE covers the silent K branch, which is the larger of the two.

What is a KRAIT

A venomous snake. It sits in the R branch with KRAAL, KRAFT and KRAUT, and it is the one there people most often miss.

Why do so many of these look foreign

K is an uncommon opening in native English words, so a lot of what lands on this pattern arrived from other languages. That is why the list reads as unfamiliar.

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