English Words: K

9,255 words · Page 1 of 186

kcharacter

The eleventh letter of the English alphabet, called kay and written in the Latin script.

K2name

A mountain on the border between Pakistan and Taxkorgan, Kashgar prefecture, Xinjiang, China, the world’s second highest mountain, located in the Ladakh Karakorams.

K9noun

A trained police dog.

kanoun

A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.

Kaabaname

The nearly cubical stone temple in Mecca, the holiest place in Islam and site of the great hajj assembly.

kabnoun

Alternative form of cab: a former Hebrew unit of volume.

kabaddinoun

A South Asian team sport in which players must hold their breath while making raids into the opposing team's half of the field.

Kabbalahname

A body of mystical Jewish teachings based on an esoteric reading of the Hebrew scriptures.

Kabirname

A surname from Arabic.

kaboomnoun

The sound of an explosion, typically seen in comic strips or heard in a light-hearted conversation.

kabukinoun

A form of Japanese theatre in which elaborately costumed male performers use stylized movements, dances, and songs in order to enact tragedies and comedies.

Kabulname

The capital and largest city of Afghanistan.

kabutonoun

A traditional Japanese military helmet, especially worn by samurai.

Kaceyname

A male given name transferred from the surname.

Kachinnoun

Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.

Kaczynskiname

A surname from Polish.

kadamnoun

A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus indicus, Nauclea cadamba), native to South and Southeast Asia.

Kadarname

A surname from Hungarian.

kaddishnoun

A Jewish prayer of praise to God recited during services, and specifically when mourning the death of a close relative.

Kadename

A male given name of modern usage.

Kadenname

A male given name originating as a coinage, variant of Caden.

Kadername

A surname from Arabic.

Kadeshname

An ancient city of the Levant, located on or near the headwaters or ford of the Orontes river.

kadinoun

Alternative spelling of qadi, Islamic judge, particularly (historical) in Ottoman contexts where they initially oversaw local administration as well as Islamic law.

Kadimaname

A centrist political party in Israel.

Kadirname

A surname from Arabic.

Kadriname

A surname from Arabic.

Kadunaname

A state of Nigeria in the North West geopolitical zone. Capital and largest city: Kaduna City.

Kadyrovname

A surname, feminine equivalent Kadyrova.

kaffirnoun

In Islamic contexts, a non-Muslim.

kafirnoun

A disbeliever, a denier: someone who rejects or disbelieves in Allah or the tenets of Islam; or more broadly any non-Muslim.

Kafkaname

A surname from German.

Kafkaesqueadj

Marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity.

Kafrname

A village in Shurab district, Fars Province, Iran.

kaftannoun

A long tunic worn in the Eastern Mediterranean.

Kagaminame

A female given name from Japanese.

Kaganname

A surname.

Kagawaname

A prefecture of Japan. Its capital is Takamatsu.

kagomenoun

An arrangement of laths composed of interlaced triangles such that each point where two laths cross has four neighboring points. Although called a lattice, it is more closely related to the trihexagonal tiling than to a mathematical lattice.

Kagoshimaname

A prefecture in southwestern Japan, on the south coast of the island of Kyushu.

kaguranoun

A kind of Shinto theatrical dance in Japan.

Kaguyaname

The protagonist of 赫映姫の物語 (Kaguya-hime no Monogatari, “The Tale of Princess Kaguya”), a mysterious girl from the moon, discovered as a baby inside the stalk of a glowing bamboo plant.

Kahlname

A surname.

Kahlername

A surname from German.

Kahnname

A surname from German.

kahunanoun

A priest or priestess of the traditional Hawaiian religion.

kainoun

Food.

kaijunoun

A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films and other media, like Godzilla, King Kong or Gamera.

Kailname

A surname.

Kailaname

A female given name.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English alphabetical index for the letter K contains 9,255 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 186 pages, and you are currently viewing page 1. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.

On this page 50 of 50 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 50 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.

For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented English headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "K" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.