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5-Letter Words Ending in EK

There are 17 five-letter words ending in EK on Word.ws, from burek to zurek. The most common are greek, creek, cheek, sleek and tarek.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

All 17 five-letter words ending in EK

  • burek11n. A type of baked or fried filled pastry of the former Ottoman Empire.
  • cheek14n. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer...
  • cleek11n. A large hook.
  • creek11n. A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main...
  • gleek10n. A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
  • greek10v. To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize...
  • kopek15n. A Russian monetary unit equal to one hundredth of a ruble.
  • kriek13n. A Belgian beer made by fermenting lambic with sour morello cherries.
  • mirek11n. A unit of measurement for color temperature.
  • perek11n. A chapter of a religious text.
  • sleek9adj. Having an even, smooth surface; smooth.
  • snoek9n. An edible fish, Thyrsites atun, native to South African (Cape), South...
  • steek9v. To stitch (sew with a needle).
  • tarek9n. Synonym of pearl mullet.
  • theek12n. Thatch.
  • tweek12n. A form of atmospherics (radio interference) produced when the...
  • zurek18n. Sour cereal soup (a type of sour rye soup, originating from Poland).
17 rare five-letter words ending in EK

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in EK are there?
Word.ws lists 17 five-letter words ending in EK, plus 17 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in EK?
greek, creek, cheek, sleek, tarek, tweek, mirek and burek.
Which of the five-letter words ending in EK has the highest letter score?
zurek scores 18 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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