Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- facultative
- falcone
- firework
- franken
- fredrick
- frink
- genk
- geomagnetic
- glick
- gynecology
- hake
- hancock's
- hayek
- hermetically
- hitchhiking
- honky
- husks
- huxtable
- hypocritical
- implicate
- inaccurately
- inconsequential
- incurring
- indiscriminate
- inelastic
- inextricably
- infractions
- infrastructures
- inquires
- intellects
- interdict
- interlinked
- irrevocably
- ischemia
- jakes
- jocular
- kafka
- kalgoorlie
- kao
- karol
- kauffman
- kea
- keck
- kerrigan
- ketchikan
- kevin's
- khaled
- khatami
- kidnappings
- killeen
- killian
- kingman
- kinnear
- kinnock
- kinston
- kippur
- kirwan
- kiryat
- klindworth
- knacks
- kohl
- kula
- kush
- lackman
- lactase
- lactate
- ladylike
- lakefront
- lancastrian
- likenesses
- lilacs
- liqueurs
- lockout
- luxor
- lycoming
- macao
- mackinnon
- majorca
- matriarchal
- mccandless
- mccarty
- mcclatchy
- mccloud
- mccord
- mcdaniel
- mcdonough
- mcenroe
- mcentire
- mckim
- mcreynolds
- mechanics'
- mencken
- michaelis
- microfilm
- microscopically
- miko
- moccasin
- monadnock
- moscow's
- musicality