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5-Letter Words Starting with KE

There are 29 five-letter words that start with KE on Word.ws, from kebab to keyer. The most common are keeps, kelly, kebab, keyed and kendo.

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All 29 five-letter words that start with KE

  • kebab13n. A hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an...
  • kecap13n. Soy sauce.
  • kecks15n. Trousers.
  • kedge11n. A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
  • keech14n. A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
  • keely12adj. Relating to, or characteristic of keel (ruddle).
  • keema11n. Finely chopped mince as used in South Asia cookery, typically lamb with...
  • keeps11n. Only used in for keeps.
  • kefir12n. A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to...
  • kegel10n. The pubococcygeal muscles.
  • keiki13n. Child or offspring.
  • kelch14n. A particular sequence of amino acids found in many proteins of...
  • kelly12n. A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary...
  • kempt13adj. Neat and tidy.
  • kenaf12n. Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found...
  • kench14n. A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
  • kendi10n. A container of Asian derivation, usually handleless, used to hold...
  • kendo10n. A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.
  • kendu10n. Coromandel ebony (Diospyros malanoxylon).
  • kenpo11n. Any of various Japanese martial arts.
  • kente9n. A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.
  • kerby14n. A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the...
  • kerma11n. The sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles...
  • kesar9n. Saffron.
  • ketal9n. Any acetal derived from a ketone.
  • ketch14n. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen...
  • kexin16n. A yeast serine peptidase.
  • keyed13adj. Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or...
  • keyer12n. One who, or that which, keys.
16 rare five-letter words that start with KE

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words that start with KE are there?
Word.ws lists 29 five-letter words that start with KE, plus 16 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words that start with KE?
keeps, kelly, kebab, keyed, kendo, ketch, keely and kegel.
Which of the five-letter words that start with KE has the highest letter score?
kexin scores 16 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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