Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- acrimony
- actuarial
- addictions
- alcott
- algebraically
- anachronism
- anorexia
- aquamarine
- atkin
- attics
- balk
- banknote
- barnacle
- beefsteak
- berkley
- berkowitz
- bifurcated
- biweekly
- bixby
- blockading
- blockage
- blockhouse
- bookcases
- bracknell
- brickyard
- brokaw
- brookings
- brooksville
- burkett
- cadogan
- cagle
- calabasas
- callaghan
- callaway
- camargo
- campion
- cancelling
- candida
- caning
- canter
- canto
- cantonal
- cantwell
- capacious
- capon
- capone
- caravelle
- carbonic
- carburetors
- carlyle's
- carrera
- carrier's
- casale
- casey's
- cashman
- caster
- catamaran
- cawley
- checklists
- checkout
- childcare
- choreographers
- circulates
- cirque
- clarissa
- claudine
- claxton
- cleaves
- clerk's
- climactic
- cloistered
- coalesced
- coaxial
- cocke
- cocos
- coed
- coffeehouse
- cognac
- coinciding
- coldwater
- cole's
- coll
- columbine
- combative
- commending
- commissar
- compassionately
- compels
- competition's
- composting
- compresses
- concepcion
- concertmaster
- concocted
- concomitant
- confectioner
- conformist
- congresswoman
- congruence
- conscripted