Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- franklin's
- frick
- geometrically
- geophysical
- geopolitical
- granitic
- grosbeak
- hacks
- handshake
- heathcote
- heineken
- humpback
- inclines
- incognito
- indestructible
- iniquity
- insecurity
- kann
- kawasaki
- kee
- kendal
- kenji
- kenosha
- kershaw
- ketone
- kettering
- kidnappers
- kimura
- kipling
- kircher
- leek
- loco
- macomb
- malfunctions
- mccabe
- mccullough
- mchenry
- mcmanus
- monique
- muskrats
- niki
- nixon's
- obstruct
- occlusion
- orinoco
- painstaking
- panicked
- pascagoula
- perfecting
- pico
- piqued
- plunkett
- politic
- precambrian
- precluded
- prosecutions
- prospectors
- recognising
- refractive
- retract
- ridiculously
- riverbank
- sabbatical
- sacs
- sanctification
- satanic
- scorching
- scorers
- scotty
- scouted
- scum
- shaikh
- sharkey
- silkworm
- spartacus
- squall
- squatters
- stalker
- steakhouse
- suffocation
- syllabic
- taxpayers
- thickest
- tuscaloosa
- unbreakable
- uncontested
- unsympathetic
- vaccinations
- victim's
- vindictive
- wicks
- workstation
- acrobatics
- aerobatic
- afrikaner
- aircrew
- akita
- alaric
- alex's
- approximated