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473 five letter words start with K, and a large share of them are names rather than ordinary words.
A takes about twenty one percent, E eighteen, I sixteen and O fourteen. N adds eight through the silent KN opening.
K is heavily used in personal names and place names, so a lot of what fills this list is not vocabulary you would guess.
KNOWN, KINDS, KNOWS, KINGS, KEEPS and KNIFE are the entries that actually come up, and the number of usable words is well below the count at the top of the page.
KNOWN, KNOWS, KNIFE, KNEES and KNOCK all open with a K you do not pronounce, so the word sounds as though it begins with N.
That is the mistake worth guarding against here, because a player working from sound will rule the whole K list out.
KNOWN or KINDS is the sensible first guess. Both sit on branches that hold real words rather than names.
K is common at the start of names borrowed from many languages, and word lists collect those alongside ordinary vocabulary.
The KN branch runs to about eight percent of the list. Small, but it holds several everyday words, which makes it worth more than its size.
It is a real word in ordinary English use, borrowed from Sanskrit. It sits on the A branch alongside a good many names.