Here is a list of fun tongue twisters with K. They can be used for warm-up and cooler activities in English classes as well as for helping students who have a problem pronouncing the /k/ sound.
See how fast you can say these tongue twisters without making a mistake. For shorter sentences, try reading them aloud 3 times in a row.
Note that in a few of these mouthfuls, there are some silent K words and hard C words.
1 – Keenly cleaning copper kettles.
2 – Come kick six sticks quick.
3 – Kooky kids in kindergarten calling kestrels with kazoos.
4 – Kiss her quick, kiss her quicker, kiss her quickest!
5 – Kate trekked to Bangkok with a backpack and checkbook.
6 – A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
7 – Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork.
8 – The kid kicked a kelpie kennel.
9 – Black kite kits, black kite kits, black kite kits.
10 – Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks.
11 – A kind kookaburra kept Ken’s kittens.
12 – How many kumquats could a Kenyan king cook if a Kenyan king could cook Kumquats?
13 – Hassock hassock, sick spotted hassock. A black spot on a black back of a sick black hassock.
14 – Kebabs, kimchi, and ketchup in a Korean kitchen.
15 – K keys on kiosk keyboards.
16 – Kevin can’t backtalk in a kangaroo court.
17 – Khaki oak kayaks, khaki oak kayaks, khaki oak kayaks.
18 – Karate kicking in a cashmere kimono.
19 – Shakes awaken the Kraken.
20 – Ken can ken that Ken’s kin can ken Ken’s kin’s ken.
21 – Keys lock Kentucky docks and Kentucky docks are keenly locked.
22 – A knick knack interlock knock-kneed knickerbocker sock with a mock-shot blob-mottled trick-ticker top clock.
23 – The wok cookbook broke the book rack.
24 – Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.
25 – Carrying a keg in a ski mask is a cakewalk on a backblock.
26 – A crackerjack brickmaking kiln.
27 – Karen has a knack for knock-knock jokes.
28 – A rollicking flock of quokkas saw a skink in a buckskin sock.
29 – Working Kazakh clockwork.
30 – If you stick a stock of liquor in your locker it is slick to stick a lock upon your stock or some joker who is slicker
is going to trick you of your liquor if you fail to lock your liquor with a lock.
31 – Killer koalas bask at dusk
