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7-letter words with R as the 1st letter and K as the 5th letter

Twenty-three 7-letter words start with R and carry K in fifth place, among them REVOKED, REBUKED, REMAKES and RAMEKIN.

23 wordsTop pick REVOKEDHighest score REVOKED 15

1 of 23 are everyday words (4%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

With R in 1st place, I is the most common 5th letter (393 words). The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Best words to play first 23 · most-used first

  • REVOKED15
  • REMAKES13
  • REBUKED14
  • RETAKEN11
  • REBUKES13
  • RETAKES11
  • REVOKES14
  • ROOTKIT11
  • RAMEKIN13
  • REMAKER13
  • REBUKER13
  • REWAKEN14
  • RAMAKIN13
  • REINKED12
  • RETAKER11
  • REVOKER14
  • REWAKED15
  • REWAKES14
  • REWOKEN14
  • ROOIKAT11
  • ROSAKER11
  • RUMAKIS13

Showing the top 22 of 23 words. See every valid word

All valid words 23

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

  • RAMAKIN13
  • RAMEKIN13
  • REBUKED14
  • REBUKER13
  • REBUKES13
  • REDSKIN12
  • REINKED12
  • REMAKER13
  • REMAKES13
  • RETAKEN11
  • RETAKER11
  • RETAKES11
  • REVOKED15
  • REVOKER14
  • REVOKES14
  • REWAKED15
  • REWAKEN14
  • REWAKES14
  • REWOKEN14
  • ROOIKAT11
  • ROOTKIT11
  • ROSAKER11
  • RUMAKIS13
Letters by positionIn 74% of these words the 2nd letter is E.
2nd letter
  1. E74%
  2. O13%
  3. A9%
3rd letter
  1. M22%
  2. W17%
  3. B13%
4th letter
  1. A48%
  2. O17%
  3. U13%
6th letter
  1. E74%
  2. I22%
  3. A4%
7th letter
  1. N26%
  2. S26%
  3. R22%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses
Score spreadMost of these words score 13 in Scrabble; REVOKED tops the list with 15. Scores before board bonuses.
  1. 1111 points: 6 words
  2. 12 points: 2 words
  3. 1313 points: 7 words
  4. 14 points: 6 words
  5. 1515 points: 2 words
WordScrabbleWords With FriendsDictionaries
REVOKED1516All three
REWAKED1515All three
REBUKED1416All three
REVOKES1415All three
REWAKEN1415All three
REVOKER1415All three
REWAKES1414All three
REWOKEN1415All three
REMAKES1314All three
REBUKES1315All three
RAMEKIN1315All three
REMAKER1314All three

Almost the whole list comes from five verbs: rebuke, revoke, retake, rewake and remake. Each hands you a short family of forms ending in D, N, R or S. Know those five stems and 23 words shrink to a checklist you can run in under a minute.

The R___K frame by the numbers

  • 23 words fit, yet only 1 is common English.
  • 15 have a definition; the average score is 12.8.
  • N and S each end 6 words, R ends 5 and D ends 4.
  • REVOKED and REWAKED reach 15, with REBUKED and REVOKES on 14.
  • The Collins list has 22 of the 23, NWL2023 has 20 and ENABLE has 19.

What are the five stems?

REBUKE gives REBUKED, rebuker and rebukes. REVOKE gives REVOKED, revoker and revokes. RETAKE gives retaken, retaker and retakes, and REWAKE gives rewaked, rewaken and rewakes.

REMAKE adds remaker and remakes. That is 14 of the 23 words from just five verbs, each ending in a suffix you already know, so a clue that names an action or its doer leads straight to the right stem. The one irregular spelling to watch is rewoken, which borrows the verb wake.

What about the other words?

Five words end in -KEN or -KIN: RETAKEN, rewaken, rewoken, RAMEKIN and ramakin. The remainder are one-offs, such as ROOTKIT, rooikat, rosaker and rumakis.

A K is worth 5 and the average here is 12.8, so a typical word beats a plain seven-letter play before any bonus. Without a rare tile, the realistic ceiling is 14 or 15 points. Only one word in the group is common, which makes the list a solver's puzzle more than a source of everyday vocabulary.

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Note

Nearly all of this list is verb forms, so dictionaries disagree on the odd ones. Check your game's word list before you try REWOKEN, ROSAKER or RUMAKIS.

Questions people ask

How many 7-letter words have R first and K fifth?
There are 23, including REVOKED, REBUKED, RETAKEN, RAMEKIN and ROOTKIT. Collins accepts 22, NWL2023 accepts 20 and ENABLE accepts 19. Only one of the 23 is a common English word.
What is the highest-scoring word with R first and K fifth?
REVOKED and REWAKED tie at 15 points in Scrabble before bonuses. REBUKED, REVOKES, REWAKEN and REVOKER follow with 14. REVOKED is the one most players know.
Which letters end 7-letter words with R first and K fifth?
N and S end 6 words each, R ends 5, D ends 4 and T ends 2. That is a four-way split with no clear favourite, so the verb stem and tense matter more than the final letter.

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