K
Yellow tile in Wordle? In Wordle, a yellow tile on K means the letter is in the answer but not in the position you guessed. All 1372 words below contain K somewhere. Use the Wordle Solver to filter by known and eliminated letters.
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All 1,372 Five-Letter Words Containing K

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Share of dataset
11.0%

1,372 of 12,478 verified words

Five unique letters
70.8%

972 words without repeats

Average vowel count
1.6

Most common bucket: 2 vowels

Average Scrabble score
11.7

Calculated from standard English tile values

How To Narrow Words That Contain K

Containing-letter pages are the bridge between a yellow tile and a fully specified pattern. K appears somewhere in 1,372 verified five-letter words, with the most common opening letters at K (353), S (195), and B (84) and the most common endings at S (524), K (244), and Y (135).

From here, the useful next step is to split the pool by position. If the letter is ruled out from one or two slots, the related position pages and Wordle Solver cut the set down much faster than browsing the full alphabetical list.

Example Words From This List

KRAIT

brightly colored venomous but nonaggressive snake of southeastern asia and malay peninsula

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9
LUCKS

your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 11
MALIK

the leader of a town or community in some parts of asia minor and the indian subcontinent

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 11
SHOCK

the feeling of distress and disbelief that you have when something bad happens accidentally

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 14
TACKY

(of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch

1 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 14
TAKES

the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property

2 vowels | No repeats | Scrabble 9