Words with the [k] sound
Voiceless velar stop; back of tongue to soft palate.
Common spellings: c, k, ck. Examples: cat, kite.
- cong
- contends
- contraception
- cooney
- coors
- copra
- corky
- corman
- corrupting
- corvettes
- cosby
- costing
- counterculture
- couriers
- couture
- coverdale
- craze
- crean
- creditor
- creoles
- croker
- crowther
- crusoe
- crux
- cul
- cuneiform
- decoy
- deryck
- diabolical
- diagnostics
- dickerson
- disaffection
- discoverers
- disrespect
- draco
- ducked
- dysfunctional
- edicts
- embankments
- empirically
- enacting
- equate
- escalate
- executioners
- fantastically
- farquhar
- fedex
- fokker
- follicles
- franca
- francisco's
- geodesic
- hackensack
- hallmarks
- harkins
- haughey
- havelock
- hitchcock's
- hockin
- homosexuals
- hooke
- hydrocarbon
- hysterics
- indiscreet
- individualistic
- injunctions
- interscholastic
- introspective
- isaacs
- judkins
- kanawha
- karp
- kasparov
- kempe
- kempton
- kessler
- kilpatrick
- kimono
- kindergartens
- kingpin
- kingsway
- kinsey
- klezmer
- koala
- krauss
- kubrick
- kuiper
- larcom
- lasker
- lok
- lurked
- macabre
- maki
- masquerade
- maxi
- mcclintock
- mcelroy
- mcfarland
- mcqueen
- merrimac