5-Letter Words with K

All 824 five-letter words with K: page 1 of 3

A

• aback13adv. By surprise; startled; dumbfounded. (see usage).
• ackee11n. A tropical evergreen tree, Blighia sapida, related to the lychee and...
• acker11n. A visible current in a lake or river; a ripple on the surface of water.
• akara9n. A bean cake, made of fried black-eyed pea flour.
• akasa9n. Ether or atmosphere, as one of the elements in Hindu philosophy.
• akuma11n. A Japanese demon.
• alack11interj. An expression of sorrow or mourning.
• alike9adj. Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
• alkyd13n. A synthetic resin derived from a reaction between alcohol and certain...
• alkyl12n. Any of a series of univalent radicals of the general formula CₙH₂ₙ₊₁...
• anker9n. A measure of wine or spirit equal to 10 gallons; a barrel of this...
• ankle9n. The skeletal joint which connects the foot with the leg; the uppermost...
• araki9n. A date liquor distilled illegally in Sudan.
• ariki9n. A person having a hereditary chiefly or noble rank in Polynesia.
• arkan9n. The five "pillars", requirements or devotional duties of Islam...
• askar9n. Police.
• asked10adj. Arsed (bothered; willing to make an effort).
• asker9n. Someone who asks a question.
• askew12adj. Turned or twisted to one side.
• askey12adj. Looking aside.
• awake12adj. Not asleep; conscious.

B

• babka13n. A Central and Eastern European coffee cake flavored with orange rind...
• backs13n. The backyard of the University.
• badak12n. A rhinoceros.
• baduk12n. An ancient Chinese board game, today also popular in Japan and Korea...
• baked12adj. That has been cooked by baking.
• baker11n. A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
• bakla11n. Effeminate man.
• bakso11n. Indonesian meatball.
• balky14adj. Refusing to proceed or cooperate.
• banku11n. A Ghanaian dish of fermented corn and cassava dough formed into a paste...
• banky14adj. Hilly; sloping.
• barky14adj. Having bark.
• batik11n. A wax-resist method of dyeing fabric.
• beaky14adj. Beaked: having a beak.
• becak13n. A cycle rickshaw.
• berko11adj. Mad; crazy, especially with rage.
• bhakt14n. Someone who practises bhakti; a person who is devoted to God; a...
• biker11n. A person whose lifestyle is centered on motorcycles, sometimes a member...
• bikie11n. A motorcyclist who is a member of a club; a biker.
• binky14n. A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more...
• black13adj. Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• blake11adj. Yellow, as butter or cheese.
• blank11adj. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be...
• bleak11adj. Without color; pale; pallid.
• bleck13n. Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
• blick13v. To shine, gleam.
• blink11v. To close and reopen both eyes quickly.
• blisk11n. An aircraft turbine engine rotor that has integral blades.
• block13n. A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece of any substance.
• bloke11n. A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
• blook11n. A book serialized on a blog (weblog) platform.
• bobak13n. The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak).
• boink11v. To have sexual intercourse (with); to bonk.
• bokeh14n. A subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of an image...
• bokke15n. Synonym of sea raven (“fish”).
• bonks11adj. Crazy, bonkers.
• books11n. Accounting records.
• booky14adj. Bookish.
• borak11n. A cosmetic face powder or paste to protect the face from the sun...
• bosky14adj. Having abundant bushes, shrubs or trees.
• botak11adj. Bald.
• brack13n. An opening caused by the parting of a solid body; a crack or breach.
• brake11n. A device used to slow or stop the motion of a wheel, or of a vehicle...
• brank11n. A metal bridle formerly used as a torture device to hold the head of a...
• break11v. To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process...
• brick13n. A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
• brink11n. The edge, margin, or border of a steep place, as of a precipice; a bank...
• brisk11adj. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion...
• brock13n. A male badger.
• broke11adj. Financially ruined, bankrupt.
• brook11v. To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
• bruck13adj. Broke, out of liquidity.
• bucko13n. A boastful or bullying man.
• bucks13n. Casual Oxford shoes made of buckskin, often white or a neutral color.
• bucky16n. A gun.
• bulak11n. An Indian nose ring usually worn by married women.
• bulka11n. A bread roll; a bun.
• bulky14adj. Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
• burek11n. A type of baked or fried filled pastry of the former Ottoman Empire.
• burka11n. A dress made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs...
• burke11v. To murder by suffocation.
• byock16n. A male ostrich's black and white wing feather.

C

• caked12adj. Congealed into a cakelike consistency; (of something covered in such a...
• caulk11n. Caulking.
• chack16v. To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of...
• chalk14n. A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
• chank14n. The large spiral shell of several species of sea conch, much used in...
• chark14n. Charcoal; coke.
• check16n. An inspection or examination.
• cheek14n. The soft skin on each side of the face, below the eyes; the outer...
• chick16n. A young bird.
• chink14n. A narrow opening such as a fissure or crack.
• chirk14v. To become happier.
• chock16n. Any object used as a wedge or filler, especially when placed behind a...
• choke14v. To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for...
• choko14n. A small handleless cup in which saké is served.
• chook14n. A chicken, especially a hen.
• chowk17n. An intersection or roundabout, where tracks or roads cross (often used...
• chuck16n. Meat from the shoulder of a cow or other animal.
• chunk14n. A part of something that has been separated; a generally squat, thick...
• clack13n. An abrupt, sharp sound, especially one made by two hard objects...
• clank11n. A loud, hard sound of metal hitting metal.
• cleek11n. A large hook.
• clerk11n. One who occupationally provides assistance by working with records...
• click13n. A brief, sharp, not particularly loud, relatively high-pitched sound...
• clink11n. The sound of metal on metal, or glass on glass.
• cloak11n. A long outer garment worn over the shoulders covering the back; a cape...
• clock13n. A chronometer, an instrument that measures time, particularly the time...
• clonk11n. The abrupt sound of two hard objects coming into contact.
• cluck13n. The sound made by a hen, especially when brooding, or calling her...
• clunk11n. A dull, metallic sound, especially one made by two bodies coming into...
• coked12adj. Intoxicated with cocaine.
• coker11n. The industrial plant in which coke is manufactured.
• cokes11n. A simpleton; a dupe.
• cokey14adj. Cocaine-addicted.
• conky14adj. Having a prominent nose.
• cooky14n. Dated spelling of cookie.
• corky14adj. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
• crack13v. To form cracks.
• crake11n. Any of several birds of the family Rallidae that have short bills.
• crank11adj. Hard; difficult.
• creak11n. The sound produced by anything that creaks; a creaking.
• creek11n. A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main...
• crick13n. A painful stiffness in some part of the body, like the neck or back...
• croak11n. A faint, harsh sound made in the throat.
• crock13n. A stoneware or earthenware jar or storage container.
• cronk11v. To honk like a goose.
• crook11n. A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
• cruck13n. A sturdy timber with a curve or angle used for primary framing of a...
• crunk11adj. Crazy and intoxicated.

D

• dabke12n. A folk dance of the Levant.
• dakka14interj. The sound of a firing machine gun.
• darky13n. The time of darkness: night or dusk.
• dekko14n. A look; a glance.
• dhikr13n. A Sufi Islamic prayer whereby a phrase or expression of praise is...
• diker10n. One who digs or works on dykes; a ditcher.
• dinky13adj. Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
• docks12n. A collection of docks, wharves, warehouses and offices.
• doink10v. To have sex with.
• dorky13adj. Like a dork.
• drake10n. A male duck (bird).
• drank10n. Dextromethorphan.
• dreck12n. Trash; rubbish; useless or worthless stuff.
• drink10v. To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
• drunk10adj. Intoxicated as a result of excessive alcohol consumption, usually by...
• ducks12n. A pair of twos.
• ducky15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
• duduk11n. An Armenian woodwind instrument.
• dukes10n. One's parents.
• dukey13n. A penny gaff.
• dumka12n. A genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine.
• dunks10n. Ziziphus mauritiana, a tropical fruit tree.
• dunky13adj. Suitable for dunking; dunkable.
• durak10n. A traditional Russian card game in which players attempt to shed all of...
• dusky13adj. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
• dykes13n. Diagonal cutting pliers; diagonal pliers; diagonal cutters; wire...

E

• eking10n. The act or process of adding.
• emaki11n. A Japanese picture scroll, a handscroll containing an illustrated...
• encik11n. Informal term of address for a male warrant officer in the Singapore...
• enoki9n. An enoki mushroom (Flammulina velutipes).
• esker9n. A long, narrow, sinuous ridge created by deposits from a stream running...
• evoke12v. To call out; to draw out or bring forth.

F

• faker12n. One who fakes something.
• fakey15adj. Fake.
• fakie12n. The riding backwards of the board, in the opposite stance.
• fakir12n. A religious mendicant who owns no personal property.
• fking13adj. Censored spelling of fucking.
• flack14v. To hang loosely; flag.
• flake12n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• flaky15adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off...
• flank12v. To attack the flank(s) of.
• flask12n. A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as...
• fleck14n. A flake.
• flick14n. A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip.
• flock14n. A large number of animals associated together in a group; commonly used...
• fluke12n. A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.
• flunk12v. Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass.
• folks12n. The members of one's immediate family, especially one's parents.
• folky15adj. Having the character of folk music.
• forky15adj. Synonym of forked.
• frack14v. To employ hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
• frank12adj. Honest, especially in a manner that seems slightly blunt; candid; not...
• freak12n. Someone or something that is markedly unusual or unpredictable.
• freck14n. Synonym of freckle (“a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on...
• freke12n. A brave man, a warrior, a man-at-arms.
• frisk12n. A little playful skip or leap; a brisk and lively movement.
• frock14n. A dress, a piece of clothing, which consists of a skirt and a cover for...
• frunk12n. A trunk (boot, storage compartment) located at the front rather than...
• funky15adj. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.

G

• gatka10n. A traditional South Asian form of combat training in which wooden...
• gawky16adj. Awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.
• gecko12n. Any lizard in the infraorder Gekkota.
• geiko10n. Synonym of geisha.
• genki10n. A playful, hyperactive girl.
• gleek10n. A once-popular game of cards played by three people.
• glock12n. A glockenspiel.
• gluck12v. To flow or cause to flow in a noisy series of spurts, as when liquid is...
• gorky13adj. Awkward or strange.
• greek10v. To display a placeholder (instead of text), especially to optimize...
• gronk10v. Of a floppy disk drive: to produce mechanical sounds of operation.
• gunky13adj. Greasy, messy or dirty.
• gutka10n. A preparation of crushed areca nut, tobacco, catechu, paraffin, slaked...

H

• hacks14interj. Used to call attention to another player hacking.
• hacky17adj. Like a hack; amateurish.
• haiku12n. A Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five...
• hakam14n. An arbitrator.
• hakea12n. A shrub of the genus Hakea, of Australia.
• hakim14n. A doctor, usually practicing traditional medicine.
• hanko12n. A traditional Japanese stamp bearing a personal seal, used (in place of...
• hanok12n. A type of traditional Korean house first designed and built in the 14th...
• harka12n. In Maghrebi history, a military campaign, often a punitive expedition...
• hecka14det. Synonym of hella.
• herky15adj. Only used in herky-jerky.
• hiker12n. One who hikes, especially frequently.
• hinky15adj. Acting suspiciously; strange, unusual; acting in a manner as if having...
• hokey15adj. Phony, as if a hoax; noticeably contrived; of obviously flimsy...
• hokku16n. Synonym of haiku (“type of Japanese poem”).
• hokum14n. (An instance of) meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of...
• honky15n. A white (Caucasian) person.
• hooky15n. Absence from school or work; truancy.
• hukou12n. A household registration record that identifies a person as a local...
• hunks12n. A crotchety or surly person.
• hunky15adj. Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
• husky15adj. Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.

I

• ickle11n. An icicle.
• ikura9n. Synonym of red caviar.
• inked10adj. Having a tattoo or tattoos.
• inker9n. A person or device that applies ink.
• inkle9n. Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces.
• irked10adj. Annoyed.
• iroko9n. Hardwood obtained from the species Milicia excelsa and, less...

J

• jacko18n. Laughing kookaburra.
• jacks18n. A pair of jacks.
• jacky21n. A sailor.
• jakes16n. A place to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory.
• jakey19n. A homeless drunk.
• jakie16n. A South American striped frog, Pseudis paradoxa, remarkable for having...
• janky19adj. Of poor quality.
• jerko16n. A jerk; an obnoxious person.
• jerky19adj. Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
• jinks16interj. Indication of surprise or amazement; jinkies.
• jinky19adj. Mazy, windy, zigzagging in its motion.
• jocko18n. A lawn jockey.
• jocks18n. Male briefs.
• jocky21adj. Jocklike.
• joker16n. A person who makes jokes.
• jokes16adj. Really good.
• junky19adj. Resembling or characteristic of junk; cheap, worthless, or of low...

K

• kabam13interj. The sound of a loud explosion; pow, blam, bang.
• kadai10n. Synonym of karahi (“cooking vessel”).
• kadam12n. A tropical evergreen tree, Neolamarckia cadamba (syn. Anthocephalus...
• kadhi13n. A curry made from chickpea flour and yoghurt which is served with...
• kadin10n. A woman of a sultan's harem.
• kahal12n. The local governing body of a former European Jewish community...
• kaiju16n. A fictional giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese...
• kaisa9n. A variant of the game billiards played chiefly in Finland and Russia.
• kaiso9n. A style of music popular in the Caribbean, a precursor to calypso music.
• kaito9n. A small motorized ferry or sampan that serves mostly remote islands.
• kaizo18n. A philosophy of game design distinguished by very high difficulty...
• kajal16n. Kohl.
• kakar13n. Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak).
• kalam11n. Speculative theology.
• kalan9n. The sea otter.
• kalaw12n. Synonym of rufous hornbill (Buceros hydrocorax).
• kalbi11n. A Korean barbecued rib dish, usually made from beef.
• kalif12n. A rank in the Ku Klux Klan.
• kalis9n. A Filipino sword akin to the kris.
• kalon9n. Ideal perfect beauty in the physical and moral sense, especially as...
• kalpa11n. A period of 4.32 billion years (1000 chatur-yugas or cycles of the four...
• kalua9n. A traditional Hawaiian cooking method, using an underground oven called...
• kamal11n. A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient...
• kamik15n. A mukluk.
• kamon11n. A Japanese family crest.
• kamut11n. A commercial cultivar of Khorasan wheat.
• kamuy14n. A spiritual or divine being in Ainu mythology, similar to the Japanese...
• kanae9n. A grey mullet.
• kanal9n. A unit of area used in parts of northern India and in Pakistan...
• kanat9n. A canvas screen or partition forming the wall or division of a tent or...
• kanga10n. A comb, required to be worn at all times by Sikhs, one of the five Ks.
• kango10n. A Sino-Japanese word, a Japanese word of Chinese origin or a Japanese...
• kanji16n. The system of writing Japanese using Chinese characters.
• kanna9n. Channa (Mesembryanthemum tortuosum, syn. Sceletium tortuosum), a...
• kanon9n. Synonym of monochord (used mainly in reference to ancient Greek music).
• kanun9n. A set of traditional Albanian laws.
• kanzo18n. A voodoo initiation ceremony.
• kapha14n. The dosha composed of water and earth.
• kapok15n. A silky fibre obtained from seed pods of the silk-cotton tree (Ceiba...
• kappa13n. The tenth letter of the Greek alphabet.
• kaput11adj. Out of order; not working.
• karam11n. The tree Adina cordifolia.
• karet9n. A severe punishment prescribed for certain offenses, interpreted...
• karez18n. A qanat, in parts of central southern Asia.
• karma11n. The sum total of a person's actions, which determine the person's next...
• karoo9n. Any vast prairie bordering a desert.
• karri9n. The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western...
• karst9n. A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the...
• karve12n. A multipurpose intermediate size Viking longship.
• karwa12n. Cooking pot.
• kasha12n. A porridge made from boiled buckwheat groats, or sometimes from other...
• kasra9n. In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small...
• katha12n. The recitation of a Hindu religious story.
• katsu9interj. A word shouted out in Zen Buddhism (as well as other sects of...
• katun9n. A medieval self-governing community in the Balkans, associated with...
• kauri9n. A conifer of the genus Agathis, found in Australasia and Melanesia...
• kaval12n. A chromatic end-blown flute of Asia and eastern Europe.
• kavya15n. A highly artificial Sanskrit literary style used by Indian court poets...
• kawal12n. A meat substitute made in Sudan from the fermented leaves of the...
• kayak16n. A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the...
• kayle12n. A pin used in kayles or skittles.
• kazan18n. A cauldron or cooking pot used in Central Asian cuisine.
• kazoo18n. A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with...
• kebab13n. A hand-held dish consisting of slices of meat or fish roasted on an...
• kecap13n. Soy sauce.
• kecks15n. Trousers.
• kedge11n. A small anchor used for warping a vessel.
• keech14n. A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher.
• keely12adj. Relating to, or characteristic of keel (ruddle).
• keema11n. Finely chopped mince as used in South Asia cookery, typically lamb with...
• keeps11n. Only used in for keeps.
• kefir12n. A fermented milk drink from the Caucasus and Eastern Europe, similar to...
• kegel10n. The pubococcygeal muscles.
• keiki13n. Child or offspring.
• kelch14n. A particular sequence of amino acids found in many proteins of...
• kelly12n. A square or hexagonal pipe that is turned in order to rotate the rotary...
• kempt13adj. Neat and tidy.
• kenaf12n. Hibiscus cannabinus, an annual or biennial herbaceous plant found...
• kench14n. A bin or enclosure in which fish or skins are salted.
• kendi10n. A container of Asian derivation, usually handleless, used to hold...
• kendo10n. A Japanese martial art using "swords" of split bamboo.
• kendu10n. Coromandel ebony (Diospyros malanoxylon).
• kenpo11n. Any of various Japanese martial arts.
• kente9n. A type of fabric made of interwoven cloth strips, native to Ghana.
• kerby14n. A children's ball game played in the street, the aim being to throw the...
• kerma11n. The sum of the initial kinetic energies of all the charged particles...
• kesar9n. Saffron.
• ketal9n. Any acetal derived from a ketone.
• ketch14n. A fore-and-aft rigged sailing vessel with two masts, main and mizzen...
• kexin16n. A yeast serine peptidase.
• keyed13adj. Having a key, mated to a keyseat and/or keyway, to either control or...
• keyer12n. One who, or that which, keys.
• kgosi10n. A tribal chief among the Tswana people of southern Africa.
• khair12n. The tree Senegalia catechu from which cutch is obtained.
• khaja19n. A fried crispy, layered sweet pastry filled with fruits or soaked with...
• khaki16n. A dull, yellowish-brown colour, the colour of dust.
• khana12n. Food, a meal.
• khash15n. A dish made from cattle's or sheep's head and/or trotters and eaten...
• khata12n. A traditional ceremonial scarf in Tengrism and Tibetan Buddhism...
• khaya15n. A native house or hut.
• kheer12n. A sweet rice pudding from South Asia.
• khula12n. A form of divorce initiated by the wife.
• khums14n. A Shi'ite tax of one-fifth of various profits (e.g. one's surplus...
• kiang10n. A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau.
• kiawe12n. Prosopis pallida, a species of mesquite tree.
• kicks15n. Shoes.
• kicky18adj. Lively, exciting, thrilling.
• kiddo11n. A close friend; especially used as a form of address.
• kiddy14n. A small kid (young goat).
• kikar13n. A tree native to South Asia, Vachellia nilotica, formerly Acacia...
• kikyo16n. A Japanese bellflower (Platycodon grandiflorus).
• kilat9adj. Impressive, top-notch or outstanding.
• kilig10adj. Excited; thrilled; the feeling of butterflies in one's stomach due to...
• kilim11n. A flat tapestry-woven carpet or rug from Turkey or Kurdistan.
• kilty12n. A flap of fringed leather covering part of a boot's tongue and lace.
• kimbo13v. To position (the arms) akimbo.
• kinda10adv. Kind of; somewhat.
• kings10n. A pair of kings (playing cards).
• kingy13n. The kingfisher, Alcedo atthis.
• kinin9n. Any of various structurally related polypeptides of the autacoid...
• kinky16adj. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
• kiosk13n. A small enclosed structure, often freestanding, open on one side or...
• kirin9n. Synonym of qilin; typically used in Japanese contexts.
• kissa9n. Synonym of kissaten, a type of Japanese café.
• kissy12adj. Sentimentally affectionate.
• kitab11n. An Islamic book.
• kited10adj. Of a cheque: made out on an account with insufficient funds, either to...
• kiter9n. One who writes a check while there are insufficient funds in the...
• kitty12n. A young cat; a kitten.
• kiver12n. A shallow wooden vessel or tub.
• kizzy30n. Only used in no kizzy.
• klang10n. Any periodic sound, especially one composed of a fundamental and...
• klick15n. A kilometer.
• klieg10n. Any of several intense arc lamps used in cinematography.
• klomp13n. A Dutch wooden clog.
• kloof12n. A deep glen or ravine.
• kluge10n. Something that should not work, but does.
• knack15n. A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something.
• knape11n. A lad.
• knave12n. A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.
• knead10v. To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to...
• kneed10adj. Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or...
• kneel9v. To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a...
• knell9v. To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll.
• knife12n. A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of...
• knish12n. An Eastern European Jewish, or Yiddish, snack food consisting of a...
• knits9n. Small particles of ore.
• knock15n. An abrupt rapping sound, as from an impact of a hard object against...
• knoll9n. A small mound or rounded hill.
• knout9n. A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as...
• knowe12n. A small hill; a knoll.

Questions about these words

How many five-letter words with K are there?

Word.ws lists 824 five-letter words with K, plus 575 rare ones.

What are common five-letter words with K?

think, thank, black, known, looks, taken, check and asked.

Which of the five-letter words with K has the highest letter score?

kizzy scores 30 points with the standard letter tile values.

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