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5-Letter Words Ending in RKY

There are 17 five-letter words ending in RKY on Word.ws, from barky to worky. The most common are murky, jerky, perky, dorky and porky.

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All 17 five-letter words ending in RKY

  • barky14adj. Having bark.
  • corky14adj. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
  • darky13n. The time of darkness: night or dusk.
  • dorky13adj. Like a dork.
  • forky15adj. Synonym of forked.
  • gorky13adj. Awkward or strange.
  • herky15adj. Only used in herky-jerky.
  • jerky19adj. Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
  • larky12adj. Playful.
  • lurky12adj. Tending to lurk; given to or indicative of lurking.
  • murky14adj. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
  • narky12adj. Irritated, in a bad mood; disparaging.
  • parky14adj. Of, from, or related to a park or parks generally, especially parklike.
  • perky14adj. Lively and often cheerful and enthusiastic.
  • porky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • sarky12adj. Synonym of sarcastic.
  • worky15adj. Characterized by or pertaining to work.
3 rare five-letter words ending in RKY

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words ending in RKY are there?
Word.ws lists 17 five-letter words ending in RKY, plus 3 rare ones.
What are common five-letter words ending in RKY?
murky, jerky, perky, dorky, porky, corky, gorky and darky.
Which of the five-letter words ending in RKY has the highest letter score?
jerky scores 19 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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