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wilks

wilks is the plural of wilk.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Wilks

Wilks (plural Wilks or Wilkses)

  1. A surname originating as a patronymic.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Wilks

Wilks

  1. (plural) plural of Wilk

Synonyms of wilks

Forms of wilks

pluralWilks
pluralWilkses
alternative formWilk
alternative formWilke
alternative formWilkie
alternative formWilkey
alternative formWilkes

Origin of wilks

From Wilk, a back-formation from Wilkin + the patronymic suffix -s.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about wilks

What does wilks mean?
Wilks means a surname originating as a patronymic.
What is wilks the plural of?
Wilks is the plural of wilk.
What part of speech is wilks?
Wilks is a proper noun.

Words near wilks in the dictionary

  1. Wilkison
  2. Wilkisons
  3. wilkmanite
  4. Wilkowski
  5. Wilkowskis
  6. wilks
  7. Wilks's theorem
  8. Wilkur
  9. will
  10. will call
  11. will calls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wilks (page history and authors); Wilks (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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