6-letter words with D as the 1st letter and K as the 3rd letter

Your clue locks D into the first slot and K into the third, leaving four letters to vary. That produces 19 tournament-dictionary entries, yet none ranks among the common English words counted here. Familiar-looking forms such as DUKING sit beside specialist words like DUKKHA and DIKKOP, and the repeated K in several top scorers gives this narrow pattern a distinctive shape.

At a glance for the D-and-K pattern

• The pattern has 19 six-letter matches across the tournament dictionaries.
• Collins includes all 19; NWL2023 has 12, while ENABLE has 10.
• DUKKHA and DUKKAH tie for the highest score at 18 points apiece.
• G and S are the most common final letters, with four matches each.

Which matches score the most?

DUKKHA and DUKKAH lead at 18 points each. DIKKOP follows at 17, then DIKDIK at 16. The double-K spellings occupy the top two spots, so check your rack for both before settling on one candidate.

DEKKOS and DUKKAS each score 15, while DUKERY and DYKIER reach 14. DUKING and DEKING score 12 apiece. Those lower-scoring forms still give you options when the higher-value letter combinations do not fit your rack.

6-letter words with D as the 1st letter and K as the 3rd letter

None of the 19 matches is common by the frequency measure used here. Collins recognizes all 19, compared with 12 in NWL2023 and 10 in ENABLE. That gap matters in play: a word accepted in one game's dictionary may not work in another, so treat these entries as specialist game vocabulary rather than everyday guesses.

For a quick final-letter filter, start with G or S: each closes four matches. T comes next with three, while R ends two.

Changing the third letter from K to N opens a much larger six-letter set: 104 words begin with D and have N in slot three. The same D-and-K pattern has 16 matches at both five and seven letters.