6-letter words with C as the 1st letter and K as the 4th letter

The pattern locks C into the opening and K into the fourth spot, leaving three letters to narrow down. Familiar matches include COOKED, COOKIE, and CHOKED, while CHUKKA tops the scoring list. Dictionary coverage differs: Collins includes more matches than either NWL2023 or ENABLE, so check your game's word list before playing an unfamiliar entry.

The C-and-K pattern at a glance

• There are 48 six-letter matches with C first and K fourth across the tournament dictionaries.
• Collins includes 46 matches; NWL2023 includes 33, and ENABLE includes 31.
• CHUKKA scores 19 points, ahead of CHOKEY at 18 and CHOKED at 16.
• Seven matches are common by word frequency; 41 have definitions.
• R is the most frequent final letter, with 13 matches; D follows with 12.

Which endings occur most often?

R and D account for the biggest ending groups: 13 words finish in R, and 12 finish in D. COOKER, CHOKER, and CORKER show the R pattern; COOKED, CHOKED, and CORKED show D.

Together, those two endings cover more than half the matches. The remaining words end in S, E, Y, A, N, or T. That makes the final tile a useful filter: a confirmed R or D points you toward the largest groups.

How to use 6-letter words with C first and K fourth

Start with the known frame, C _ _ K _ _. Then test likely endings against the crossings: COOKED and CHOKED fit D, while COOKIE ends in E. If the pattern feels sparse, compare it with C-I in the fourth position, which has 168 matches rather than 48.

For a scoring play, CHUKKA leads at 19 points; CHOKEY follows at 18. The average score is 13.9, but the top words are not all everyday vocabulary. Seven matches count as common, so recognize the word before relying on a high tile total.