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5 Letter Words Ending in K

Looking for 5 letter words ending in K? We found 115, and 39 are words you would use every day, such as THINK, THANK and BLACK. C is the letter most often right before the K, in 45 of them.

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Words
115
39 common
Top letters in spots 1 to 4
c51%a44%s36%r33%l28%
Repeated letters
25
22% of words, like CHECK
2+ vowels
29
25% of words

Common 5 letter words ending in K

39 everyday words, ranked by how often they appear in English, most common first.

  1. think
  2. thank
  3. black
  4. check
  5. break
  6. speak
  7. track
  8. quick
  9. stock
  10. drink
  11. block
  12. click
  13. stick
  14. frank
  15. stuck
  16. truck
  17. trick
  18. shock
  19. thick
  20. clock

More common words, in order (19)

crack knock brick chuck blank freak shook stack trunk stark sneak cheek wreck drank snack blink chalk chunk drunk

More 5 letter words ending in K

The other 76 words in our dictionary, A to Z. Most are rarer words, plurals and word forms that many word games accept.

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A... 1

aback

B... 5

batik bleak brink brisk brook

C... 16

caulk chick chink chock clack clank clerk clink cloak cluck crank creak creek croak crock crook

F... 10

flack flank flask fleck flick flock flunk frack frisk frock

K... 4

kapok kayak kiosk knack

P... 3

plank pluck prank

Q... 3

quack quark quirk

S... 26

shack shank shark shirk shuck skulk skunk slack sleek slick slink slunk smack smirk smock spank spark speck spook spunk stalk stank steak stink stork stunk

T... 2

tweak twerk

U... 1

umiak

W... 5

whack whelk whisk wrack wreak

Tips for this pattern

  • Check the letter before -K. C comes right before it in 45 words (39%), as in BLACK and CHECK. N (28) and A (13) follow.
  • Then the first letter. S starts 36 of these words (31%), like SPEAK and STOCK, and C starts 24.
  • A strong first guess. If you know the word ends in K, SNACK is a good opener: it tests S, N, A and C, four of the seven most common letters in the open spots.

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Questions

How many 5 letter words ending in K are there?

Our dictionary has 115 five letter words ending in K. 39 of them are common everyday words, and the other 76 are rarer words that are still in our dictionary.

What are the most common 5 letter words ending in K?

THINK, THANK, BLACK, CHECK and BREAK, ranked by how often they appear in everyday English. 25 of all 115 words repeat a letter, and 29 have two or more vowels.

What letter usually comes before K in 5 letter words?

C. It sits right before the K in 45 of the 115 words (39%), for example BLACK and CHECK. N is next with 28.

Word lists are based on SCOWL. “Most common” order uses data from wordfreq by Robyn Speer, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.