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Words Ending in KY

There are 176 words ending in KY on Word.ws, from 3 to 11 letters. The most common length is 5 letters (96 words). The words used most often are lucky, sky, rocky, tricky and risky.

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

3-letter words ending in KY

  • sky10n. The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the...

4-letter words ending in KY

  • esky11n. An insulated picnic cooler, using ice or refrigerated blocks to keep...
  • icky13adj. Unpleasantly sticky; yucky; disgusting.
  • inky11adj. Synonym of black.
  • oaky11adj. Resembling or characteristic of the oak tree or its wood.
  • poky13adj. Slow.
  • roky11adj. Misty; foggy; cloudy.

5-letter words ending in KY

  • bucky16n. A gun.
  • bulky14adj. Being large in size, mass, or volume; big, fat or muscular.
  • corky14adj. Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
  • dinky13adj. Tiny and cute; small and attractive.
  • dorky13adj. Like a dork.
  • ducky15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a duck.
  • dusky13adj. Dimly lit, as at dusk (evening).
  • flaky15adj. Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off...
  • funky15adj. Offbeat, unconventional or eccentric.
  • gorky13adj. Awkward or strange.
  • honky15n. A white (Caucasian) person.
  • hunky15adj. Exhibiting strong, masculine beauty.
  • husky15adj. Of a voice, hoarse and rough-sounding; throaty.
  • jacky21n. A sailor.
  • jerky19adj. Characterized by physical jerking, or by sudden and uneven progress.
  • kinky16adj. Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl.
  • kooky16adj. Eccentric, strange, or foolish; crazy or insane; kookish.
  • leaky12adj. Having leaks; not fully sealed.
  • lucky14adj. Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
  • milky14adj. Resembling milk in color, consistency, smell, etc.; consisting of milk.
  • murky14adj. Hard to see through, as a fog or mist.
  • musky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of musk, especially in scent.
  • peaky14adj. Sickly; peaked.
  • 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.
  • porky14adj. Resembling or characteristic of pork.
  • risky12adj. Dangerous; involving risks.
  • rocky14adj. Abounding in, or full of, rocks; consisting of rocks.
  • shaky15adj. Shaking or trembling.
  • silky12adj. Similar in appearance or texture (especially in softness and...
  • smoky14adj. Filled with smoke.
  • spiky14adj. Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in...
  • sucky14adj. Suitable for sucking.
  • tacky14adj. Of a substance, slightly sticky.
  • wacky17adj. Zany; eccentric.
  • winky15adj. Tending to wink; winking.
  • wonky15adj. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
  • yucky17adj. Of something highly offensive; causing aversion or disgust.

All 96 5-letter words ending in KY

6-letter words ending in KY

  • blanky15adj. A mild intensifier, expressing irritation.
  • blinky15adj. Of eyes or people/animals: blinking repeatedly, prone to blink.
  • blocky17adj. Resembling a block in shape.
  • breaky15adj. Easily broken.
  • chalky18adj. Consisting of or containing chalk.
  • cheeky18adj. Impudent; impertinent; impertinently bold, often in a way that is...
  • chicky20n. Chicken.
  • chinky18adj. Full of chinks, laden with small cracks or openings.
  • chucky20n. Chicken.
  • chunky18adj. Having chunks.
  • clicky17adj. Easily or frequently clicking or being clicked.
  • clunky15adj. Ungainly; awkward; inelegant; cumbersome.
  • cracky17adj. Having lots of cracks.
  • cranky15adj. Not in good working condition; defective, faulty.
  • creaky15adj. Tending to creak.
  • croaky15adj. Like that of a frog.
  • drinky14n. Drink.
  • flicky18adj. Easily flicked; thus, light and fast.
  • flunky16n. One performing menial or miscellaneous duties.
  • franky16n. Synonym of Frankenstein.
  • freaky16adj. Resembling a freak.
  • frisky16adj. Abounding in energy or playfulness.
  • jansky20n. A non-SI unit (symbol Jy) measuring electromagnetic flux density equal...
  • plucky17adj. Having or showing pluck, courage or spirit in trying circumstances.
  • quirky22adj. Given to quirks or idiosyncrasies; strange in a somewhat silly, awkward...
  • sharky16adj. Resembling or characteristic of a shark.
  • shirky16adj. Disposed to shirk; tending to avoid work, obligations, etc.
  • shonky16adj. Of poor or dubious quality, shoddy, unreliable; deviously dishonest...
  • skanky17adj. Dirty; smutty or scabby.
  • skunky17adj. Mean, contemptible.
  • slinky13adj. Furtive, stealthy or catlike.
  • smirky15adj. Smirking, or as if smirking.
  • snacky15adj. Resembling or characteristic of a snack; suitable as a snack.
  • snarky13adj. Snide and sarcastic; usually out of irritation.
  • sneaky13adj. Elusive; difficult to capture or observe due to constantly outwitting...
  • spanky15adj. Brand spanking new.
  • sparky15adj. Lively and animated.
  • specky17adj. Resembling a speck, minuscule.
  • spooky15adj. Eerie, or suggestive of ghosts or the supernatural.
  • spunky15adj. Spirited or plucky.
  • stalky13adj. Long and thin, like a stalk of a plant.
  • stanky13adj. Smelly; stinky.
  • sticky15adj. Tending to stick; able to adhere via the drying of a viscous substance.
  • stinky13adj. Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
  • stocky15adj. Sturdy; solidly built; heavy and compact.
  • thinky16adj. Tending to think, or inspire thinking.
  • tricky15adj. Hard to deal with, complicated.
  • twinky16adj. Being or resembling a twink (“young, attractive, slim man”).

The 48 most common of 56 are shown.

7-letter words ending in KY

  • autarky14n. A personal condition or state of self-reliance; independence.
  • colicky18adj. Of, pertaining to, or suffering from colic.
  • finicky19adj. Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about...
  • panicky18adj. In a state of panic.
  • shrinky17adj. Characteristic of a shrink (psychologist).
  • squeaky23adj. Tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak.
  • streaky14adj. Having streaks.
  • unlucky16adj. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.

8-letter words ending in KY

  • garlicky18adj. Tasting or smelling of garlic.
  • gimmicky22adj. Resembling, or characteristic of a gimmick.
  • hummocky24adj. Having hummocks.
  • kolinsky19n. The Siberian weasel, Mustela sibirica.
  • nitpicky19adj. Finicky; overly critical; concerned with insignificant details.
  • schlocky22adj. Of inferior quality, cheap.
  • staticky17adj. Resembling or containing static.

9-letter words ending in KY

  • plasticky20adj. Resembling plastic, especially in the sense of being cheap and...

11-letter words ending in KY

  • jabberwocky34n. Invented or meaningless language; nonsense.
276 rare words ending in KY

Questions about these words

How many words ending in KY are there?
Word.ws lists 176 words ending in KY, plus 276 rare ones.
What are common words ending in KY?
lucky, sky, rocky, tricky, risky, sticky, funky and unlucky.
Which of the words ending in KY has the highest letter score?
jabberwocky scores 34 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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