7-letter words with K as the 3rd letter and I as the 6th letter

The pattern is _ _ K _ _ I _, and it produces 13 words. Nine end in S, three end in C, and one ends in N. Their starting letters are lopsided too: seven begin with A, while B and P account for two apiece.

How many 7-letter words have K third and I sixth?

• 13 tournament-dictionary words fit the pattern _ _ K _ _ I _.
• All 13 appear in Collins; 10 appear in NWL2023 and 8 in ENABLE.
• Nine words end in S, compared with three ending in C and one in N.
• Seven entries start with A; B and P each start two.
• The average tile score is 13.5 points, with WAKIKIS at the top.

Which words fit the fixed letters?

The matches are BIKINIS, ALKALIS, ASKARIS, ALKALIC, UAKARIS, ALKALIN, ALKYLIC, ARKOSIC, ASKESIS, BUKSHIS, PAKAHIS, PAKIHIS, and WAKIKIS. Each keeps K in position three and I in position six.

Seven begin with A: ALKALIS, ALKALIC, ALKALIN, ALKYLIC, ARKOSIC, ASKARIS, and ASKESIS. BIKINIS and BUKSHIS start with B; PAKAHIS and PAKIHIS start with P.

The two remaining openings are one-offs: UAKARIS starts with U, and WAKIKIS starts with W. When solving from a partial rack, test the first tile against those less common openings before rejecting a fit.

Scoring 7-letter words with K third and I sixth

WAKIKIS scores 18 points, the top mark in this group. ALKYLIC, BUKSHIS, PAKAHIS, and PAKIHIS each score 16, while BIKINIS scores 13. The leading options are not necessarily the words that come to mind first, so compare the rack against the scoring names before playing a familiar, lower-value choice.

A catch: none of these entries meets the common-word cutoff used for the list's frequency count. Check your game's dictionary before relying on a less familiar match. Collins accepts all 13, but ENABLE accepts only 8, so the same pattern does not guarantee the same playable choices across games.

For 7-letter words with K as the 3rd letter and I as the 6th letter, the dictionary split matters as much as the score. BIKINIS may look approachable, but its presence does not make every other match familiar or universally accepted.