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5-letter words starting with KA
There are 41 5-letter words starting with KA in the standard word-game list. The most common are karma, kappa, kaput, kanji, kayak, kazoo. Every five-letter word here is a valid Wordle guess, and the commonest ones are the likeliest answers.
Most common, with meanings
| Word | Meaning | Points |
|---|---|---|
| karma | (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine their destiny in their next… | 11 |
| kappa | the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet | 13 |
| kaput | destroyed or killed | 11 |
| kanji | The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters. | 16 |
| kayak | a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos | 16 |
| kazoo | a toy wind instrument that has a membrane that makes a sound when you hum into the mouthpiece | 18 |
| karat | the unit of measurement for the proportion of gold in an alloy; 18-karat gold is 75% gold; 24-karat gold is… | 9 |
| kabob | cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables | 13 |
| kafir | a member of the Kafir people in northeastern Afghanistan | 12 |
| kalam | Speculative theology | 11 |
| kalif | the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state considered to be a representative of Allah on earth | 12 |
| kalpa | A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 chatur-yugas or cycles of the four yugas). | 11 |
| kamik | A mukluk. | 15 |
| kapok | a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation | 15 |
| karoo | Any vast prairie bordering a desert. | 9 |
| karst | A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground… | 9 |
| kasha | boiled or baked buckwheat | 12 |
| kauri | resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and… | 9 |
| kaury | tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood | 12 |