3 letter words with K as the 2nd letter

Our dictionary holds 9 3 letter words with k as the 2nd letter, all exactly 3 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is SKY, worth 10 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 3 of them, about 33% of the list.

4 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (44%), including ski, sky, aka, ska; the remaining 5 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.