Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- abstractions
- acme
- aitken
- aka
- akira
- altercation
- analytics
- ancona
- apocryphal
- aristocrats
- ascribe
- awkwardness
- banquets
- barbaric
- bloch
- blockhead
- brinkley
- burlesque
- callahan
- calliope
- carbide
- carboniferous
- cayenne
- chemists
- chunky
- claimants
- classifying
- comma
- committee's
- complacency
- complemented
- complements
- concurred
- confronting
- conifer
- coniferous
- constabulary
- containment
- contemplative
- contemptuous
- contenders
- contending
- converter
- convulsive
- corp
- correspondingly
- councilors
- counterattack
- counterpoint
- crispin
- criss
- crosbie
- cupola
- curran
- curricula
- decreed
- detects
- dikes
- discrepancies
- diversification
- erection
- erich
- eskimo
- exploratory
- flamenco
- frederick's
- gimmick
- gymnastic
- haiku
- hatchback
- ike
- instructive
- kidnaps
- kitts
- kylie
- lichens
- mckee
- medicare
- metcalfe
- monarchist
- musk
- musketeers
- olfactory
- patchwork
- predicament
- proclaims
- quarks
- ransacked
- rascals
- recklessness
- relinquished
- risked
- rook
- scaffolding
- sedgwick
- sexton
- speculators
- squeak
- stomachs
- suffocated