5 letter words ending in K can still leave a lot of possible answers. A clue like _ _ _ _ K may look easy, but the letters before K can still lead to many different words.
This is why the ending can still be hard in Wordle, Scrabble, and similar word games. Some words end in CK, some in NK, and some in RK, so the starting letter and middle letters still matter.
The sections ahead sort 5 letter words ending in K by common endings and starting letters, so you can check which words still fit and cross off the ones that do not.
Common 5 Letter Words Ending In K
Words you already use that Wordle has not spent yet, ordered by how often they turn up in English.
| Black | Crook | Chock | Frack |
| Quick | Snuck | Crick | Chowk |
| Block | Tweak | Knick | Gluck |
| Shark | Kayak | Skank | Stunk |
| Shook | Brisk | Spunk | Slink |
| Trunk | Flask | Shirk | Shuck |
| Stark | Sheik | Swank | Brack |
| Drank | Skunk | Snark | Tilak |
| Blink | Quack | Clink | Caulk |
| Ebook | Quark | Chink | Spink |
| Brock | Smirk | Thunk | Taluk |
| Prank | Kiosk | Smock | Cronk |
| Malik | Wreak | Batik | Blick |
| Prick | Twink | Twerk | Crunk |
| Brink | Frisk | Creak | Clunk |
| Bleak | Frock | Snook | Wrack |
| Shack | Spook | Breck |
5 Letter Words Ending In K Already Used In Wordle
Wordle never repeats an answer, so these 68 are out.
| Aback | Cluck | Knock | Stalk |
| Blank | Crack | Plank | Stank |
| Break | Crank | Pluck | Steak |
| Brick | Creek | Quirk | Stick |
| Brook | Croak | Shank | Stink |
| Chalk | Crock | Shock | Stock |
| Check | Drink | Slack | Stork |
| Cheek | Drunk | Sleek | Stuck |
| Chick | Flack | Slick | Thank |
| Chuck | Flank | Smack | Thick |
| Chunk | Fleck | Snack | Think |
| Clack | Flick | Sneak | Track |
| Clank | Flock | Spank | Trick |
| Clerk | Frank | Spark | Truck |
| Click | Freak | Speak | Whack |
| Cloak | Greek | Speck | Whisk |
| Clock | Knack | Stack | Wreck |
5 Letter Words Ending In K By Starting Letter
5 Letter Words Starting With A To F And Ending In K
Starting With A
| Abask | Alack | Amuck | Apeek |
| Acock | Aleck | Apeak | Awork |
Starting With B
| Banak | Blunk | Borak | Brusk |
| Baulk | Bobak | Borek | |
| Blook | Boink | Brank |
Starting With C
| Chack | Chawk | Chook | Cleik |
| Chank | Chirk | Cleck | Clonk |
| Chark | Chonk | Cleek | Cruck |
Starting With D And F
| Deink | Drook | Flisk | |
| Drack | Drouk | Flunk | |
| Dreck | Fleek | Frunk |
5 Letter Words Starting With G To N And Ending In K
Starting With K
| Kaiak | Kiack | Krunk | |
| Kamik | Klick | Kulak | |
| Kapok | Kopek | Kyack |
Starting With G To N
| Glaik | Hacek | Lepak | Natak |
| Gleek | Haick | Melik | Nebek |
| Glisk | Hoick | Mujik | |
| Gopak | Hopak | Muzak | |
| Gopik | Ibrik | Namak |
5 Letter Words Starting With P To S And Ending In K
Starting With P
| Palak | Plock | Plouk | Pronk |
| Plack | Plonk | Plunk | Pulik |
| Plink | Plook | Prink |
Starting With Q And R
- Qapik
- Quonk
- Reink
- Rojak
Starting With S
| Saick | Skulk | Sneck | Stirk |
| Samek | Slank | Snick | Stonk |
| Sculk | Slunk | Snoek | Stook |
| Shmek | Smaak | Snowk | Sukuk |
| Shonk | Smaik | Spelk | Swack |
| Shtik | Smeek | Spick | Swink |
| Skink | Smeik | Spork | |
| Skrik | Smerk | Steek |
5 Letter Words Starting With T To Z And Ending In K
Starting With T
| Talak | Thilk | Treck | Tupik |
| Tarok | Topek | Troak | Twank |
| Terek | Torsk | Trock | Twonk |
| Thack | Traik | Tronk | |
| Theek | Trank | Tupek |
Starting With U To Z
| Umiak | Whelk | Yapok | |
| Uptak | Whilk | Yarak | |
| Waulk | Wrick | Yoick |
5 Letter Words Ending In CK And NK
Two endings own this letter. CK and NK together account for 141 of the 272 words.
| Letter before K | Words |
|---|---|
| C | 80 |
| N | 61 |
| A | 33 |
| E | 21 |
| I | 18 |
| R | 17 |
| O | 14 |
| L | 11 |
| S | 10 |
| U | 4 |
| W | 3 |
If a C in slot four comes back grey, roughly a third of the field goes with it. Ruling out N as well leaves you under half of what you started with. The opposite pattern holds for 5 letter words ending in Y, where no single letter dominates slot four.
Best 5 Letter Words Ending In K To Try In Wordle
Each of these tests a different fourth letter, and none repeats a letter.
| Word | Fourth letter |
|---|---|
| Black | C |
| Shark | R |
| Trunk | N |
| Malik | I |
| Bleak | A |
| Brisk | S |
| Chowk | W |
High Scoring Five Letter Words Ending In K For Scrabble
| Word | Scrabble points |
|---|---|
| Quick | 20 |
| Muzak | 20 |
| Qapik | 20 |
| Quack | 20 |
| Kyack | 18 |
| Quirk | 18 |
| Quark | 18 |
| Quonk | 18 |
| Mujik | 18 |
| Chowk | 17 |
| Chawk | 17 |
| Whack | 17 |
5 Letter Words Ending In K With Meanings
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Baulk | To hesitate or pull up short before something |
| Batik | Cloth patterned by covering parts in wax before dyeing |
| Brusk | Blunt and abrupt in manner, a variant of brusque |
| Caulk | To seal a joint or seam against water |
| Chook | An Australian word for a chicken |
| Cleek | A large hook, or an old iron-headed golf club |
| Dreck | Rubbish, or worthless material |
| Glisk | A brief gleam or flash of light |
| Hoick | To lift or pull something sharply upward |
| Ibrik | A small long handled pot for brewing Turkish coffee |
| Kapok | A light fibre from a tropical tree, used to stuff cushions |
| Kopek | A Russian coin worth one hundredth of a rouble |
| Kulak | A prosperous peasant farmer in imperial Russia |
| Mujik | A Russian peasant |
| Sheik | An Arab chief or a Muslim religious leader |
| Skink | A lizard with smooth overlapping scales |
| Snoek | A long predatory sea fish of southern waters |
| Spelk | A splinter of wood |
| Spork | A utensil combining a spoon and a fork |
| Stirk | A young bullock or heifer |
| Taluk | An administrative district in South Asia |
| Torsk | A cod-like fish of the North Atlantic |
| Umiak | A large open Inuit boat covered with animal skin |
| Whelk | An edible sea snail with a spiral shell |
Names And Places Ending In K That Are Not Valid Words
These are proper nouns, so they never count as answers in Wordle and never score in Scrabble. Word lists that promise 400 or more reach that number by counting them.
| Name | What it is |
|---|---|
| Minsk | The capital of Belarus |
| Tomsk | A city in Siberia |
| Kursk | A city in western Russia |
| Pinsk | A city in southern Belarus |
| Lutsk | A city in north western Ukraine |
| Ozark | A mountain region of the central United States |
| Kodak | A photographic film and camera brand |
| Merck | A pharmaceutical company |
| Uzbek | A person from Uzbekistan |
| Tajik | A person from Tajikistan |
| Perak | A state in Malaysia |
| Depok | A city in Indonesia |
FAQs
272 five letter words end in K. 88 of them are words you already use and the rest turn up mainly in dictionary based word games. Counts above 300 reach that number by adding place names and brands.
192 of the 272 avoid C altogether. Blank, Drink, Trunk, Stalk, Whisk, Shark, Spark, Sneak, Break and Steak are the ones you are most likely to need, and NK is the largest of the non C endings at 61 words.
Shark, Spark, Stark, Stork, Quirk, Smirk, Shirk, Clerk, Brisk, Brink, Brook, Break, Freak, Frank, Frock, Prank, Prick, Trick, Track, Truck and Trunk all carry an R. R is the sixth most frequent letter in slot four here.
S is by far the most productive first letter, with 70 of the 272 words. Shark, Shock, Stick, Stock, Stuck, Speak, Spark, Sneak, Snack, Slack, Slick, Sleek, Steak, Stalk, Stark, Stink, Skunk, Swank, Smack and Smirk lead the group.
Black, Trunk or Bleak. Each tests one of the three most frequent fourth letters, and none of them repeats a letter, so a grey tile rules out four letters at once.
Quick, Quack, Muzak and Qapik all reach 20 points before any premium square. Quirk, Quark and Mujik follow at 18.
Yes. Kayak, Klick, Knack, Knock and Kapok all start and end with K. Our 5 Letter Words Finder will filter them against the letters you have already ruled out.
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