5-Letter Words Ending in KY

All 96 five-letter words ending in KY

B

• balky14adj. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
• banky14adj. Hilly; sloping.
• barky14adj. Having bark.
• beaky14adj. Beaked: having a beak.
• binky14n. A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more...
• booky14adj. Bookish.
• bosky14adj. Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
• bucky16n. A gun.
• bulky14adj. Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.

C

• conky14adj. Having a prominent nose.
• cooky14n. Dated spelling of cookie.
• corky14adj. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.

D

• darky13n. The time of darkness: night or dusk.
• dinky13adj. Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
• dorky13adj. Like a dork.
• ducky15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
• dunky13adj. Suitable for dunking; dunkable.
• dusky13adj. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).

F

• flaky15adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off...
• folky15adj. Having the character of folk music.
• forky15adj. Synonym of forked.
• funky15adj. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.

G

• gawky16adj. Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
• gorky13adj. Awkward or strange.
• gunky13adj. Greasy, messy or dirty.

H

• hacky17adj. Like a hack; amateurish.
• herky15adj. Only used in herky-jerky.
• hinky15adj. Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having...
• honky15n. A white (Caucasian) person.
• hooky15n. Absence from school or work; truancy.
• hunky15adj. Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
• husky15adj. Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.

J

• jacky21n. A sailor.
• janky19adj. Of poor quality.
• jerky19adj. Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
• jinky19adj. Mazy, windy, zigzagging in its motion.
• jocky21adj. Jocklike.
• junky19adj. Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low...

K

• kicky18adj. Lively, exciting, thrilling.
• kinky16adj. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
• kooky16adj. Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.

L

• larky12adj. Playful.
• leaky12adj. Having leaks; not fully sealed.
• lecky14n. Electricity.
• licky14adj. Prone to licking.
• locky14adj. Having locks or tufts.
• looky12v. Look.
• lucky14adj. Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
• lurky12adj. Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.

M

• macky16adj. Large.
• malky14v. To slash with an open razor.
• manky14adj. Unpleasantly dirty and disgusting.
• milky14adj. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
• minky14adj. Of or pertaining to minks.
• mucky16adj. Covered in muck.
• murky14adj. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
• musky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of musk, especially in scent.

N

• narky12adj. Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
• nooky12adj. Like a nook; small and secluded or cosy.

P

• parky14adj. Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.
• peaky14adj. Sickly; peaked.
• pecky16adj. Discoloured by fungus growth or insects.
• perky14adj. Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
• pesky14adj. Annoying, troublesome, irritating (usually of an animal or child).
• picky16adj. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
• pinky14adj. Pinkish.
• pocky16adj. Covered in pock marks; specifically, pox-ridden, syphilitic.
• porky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
• pucky16n. Feces, excrement.
• punky14adj. Of or pertaining to punk (touchwood); rotted or soft.

R

• risky12adj. Dangerous; involving risks.
• rocky14adj. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
• rooky12adj. Full of rooks.

S

• sarky12adj. Synonym of sarcastic.
• shaky15adj. Shaking or trembling.
• sicky14adj. Covered in vomit.
• silky12adj. Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and...
• smoky14adj. Filled with smoke.
• snaky12adj. Resembling or relating to snakes; snakelike.
• socky14adj. Socklike.
• sooky12adj. Complaining, whingeing, sad; jealous.
• spiky14adj. Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in...
• sucky14adj. Suitable for sucking.
• sulky12n. A light, two-wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in harness racing.

T

• tacky14adj. Of a substance, slightly sticky.
• talky12adj. Talkative or loquacious.
• tanky12adj. Having a dank quality resulting from excessive ageing in a tank.
• ticky14adj. Infested with ticks (the tiny woodland arthropod of the order Acarina).
• tusky12adj. Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.

W

• wacky17adj. Zany; eccentric.
• wicky17n. Sheep laurel, a shrub of species Kalmia angustifolia.
• winky15adj. Tending to wink; winking.
• wonky15adj. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
• worky15adj. Characterized by or pertaining to work.

Y

• yolky15adj. Of, pertaining to, or having the characteristics of yolk.
• yucky17adj. Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in KY are there?

Word.ws lists 96 five-letter words ending in KY, plus 41 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words ending in KY?

lucky, rocky, risky, funky, milky, shaky, pinky and kinky.

Which of the five-letter words ending in KY has the highest letter score?

jocky scores 21 points with the standard letter tile values.

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