3-Letter Words Starting with K
There are 44 three-letter words that start with K on Word.ws, from kaf to kyu. The most common are key, kid, kit, ken and kay.
Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.
All 44 three-letter words that start with K
KA
- kaf10n. The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k).
- kai7n. Food.
- kaj14n. A spirit of storm and wind;.
- kak11n. A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Cambodian riel.
- kam9adj. Crooked, awry.
- kan7n. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb.
- kas7n. A kind of large cupboard or wardrobe of Dutch origin, popular in the...
- kat7n. An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois...
- kay10n. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.
KE
- kea7n. Nestor notabilis, a parrot of New Zealand.
- keb9v. Of a ewe, to abort a lamb.
- ked8n. Any of the family Hippoboscidae of obligate parasites, especially the...
- keg8n. A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a...
- kei7n. A class of lightweight vehicles with small engines.
- ken7v. To know, perceive or understand.
- kep9n. A traditional Fair Isle fisherman's cap.
- ker7n. A chief of the Luo people.
- kes7n. The kestrel.
- ket7n. A column vector, in Hilbert space, especially as representing the state...
- kew10n. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.
- kex14n. The dried stem of certain large herbaceous plants.
- key10n. An object designed to open and close a lock or to activate or...
KH
- kha10n. The name of the Cyrillic script letter Х / х.
- khu10n. Synonym of akh (“a spirit of the dead that has successfully completed...
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- kid8n. A child, adolescent, or (loosely) a young adult.
- kif10n. A kind of cannabis smoked in Morocco and Algeria, for its narcotic or...
- kig8n. A full-body costume of a cartoon character.
- kin7n. Race; family; breed; kind.
- kip9n. The untanned hide of a young or small beast, such as a calf, lamb, or...
- kir7n. A cocktail made with a measure of crème de cassis topped up with white...
- kit7n. A circular wooden vessel, made of hooped staves.
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- koa7n. A large tree of species Acacia koa (family Fabaceae) which is endemic...
- kob9n. An African antelope closely related to the lechwe and the waterbuck...
- koi7n. Ornamental domesticated varieties of the Amur carp (Cyprinus...
- kop9n. A hill or mountain.
- kou7n. A tree of species Cordia subcordata.
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- kra7n. The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of...
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- kth10adj. Occurring at position k in a sequence.
KU
- kue7n. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q. Alternative form of cue.
- kuh10n. The sound produced in English by the letter k or a hard c.
- kun7n. In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji...
- kut7n. A traditional Korean shamanic ritual.
KY
1 rare three-letter words that start with K
Questions about these words
- How many three-letter words that start with K are there?
- Word.ws lists 44 three-letter words that start with K, plus 1 rare ones.
- What are common three-letter words that start with K?
- key, kid, kit, ken, kay, kai, kin and kat.
- Which of the three-letter words that start with K has the highest letter score?
- kex scores 14 points with the standard letter tile values.
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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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