6-letter words with K as the 3rd letter and A as the 4th letter

The pattern fixes the middle of each word as KA, leaving the first two and last two letters to narrow your search. Examples include ALKALI, MIKADO, and YUKATA. Dictionary coverage differs across the group, and none of these words ranks among the most frequent 25,000 English words, so expect several unfamiliar entries.

K third and A fourth: the count

• The pattern has 32 matches across the tournament dictionaries named for this list.
• Collins includes 30 matches, compared with 19 in NWL2023 and 12 in ENABLE.
• None of the 32 matches falls within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
• P begins five matches, more than any other starting letter; A begins four.
• S ends 15 matches, while E ends six and I ends five.

Which pattern words score the most in Scrabble?

ZAKATS leads the Scrabble scoring examples at 19 points. KOKAKO follows at 18, and KAKAPO, PIKAKE, and KOKAMS each score 16. These unusual words make the fixed K-A pair a chance to place high-value letters, but knowing the pattern does not guarantee your game accepts every entry.

WAKAME, BEKAHS, HAKAMS, and PAKAHI each score 15, while MIKADO scores 13. The average score across the matches is 12.9. For a practical play, check the word against your game's dictionary once, especially before building around a less familiar entry.

What endings and neighboring patterns help narrow the search?

For 6-letter words with K as the 3rd letter and A as the 4th letter, the final letter is often a stronger filter than the opening one: 15 end in S, but only five begin with the most common starter, P. Try the ending first when several possible words fit your rack.

The neighboring patterns show how sharply the count changes. Keeping K in third place but changing A to I gives 99 matches; changing it to E gives 67. Keeping KA fixed instead, the five-letter pattern has 26 matches and the seven-letter pattern has 33.