4-letter words ending in K

A final K gives you a clear pattern to work with, but these words vary widely in how familiar they are and how much they score. This list has 279 entries across the supported tournament dictionaries, with 112 classed as common. Use the examples and letter clues below to narrow the list for your puzzle or word game.

How many 4-letter words ending in K are there?

There are 279 four-letter entries ending in K in this list. That is far fewer than the 1,110 four-letter words ending in S, yet much more than the 3 ending in J. If your clue fixes the last letter as K, this page gives you a focused set rather than a broad list of short words.

The first letter can help narrow your search further. B leads the available starting letters with 29 entries, followed by D with 21 and P with 20. Try those openings first when they fit your known tiles.

Which K-ending words are easiest to recognize?

Common examples include BACK, WORK, LOOK, WEEK, BOOK, TALK and WALK. These everyday words can be useful when your puzzle has revealed only the final K, because they offer familiar letter patterns to test.

The list has 112 words classed as common, so not every dictionary entry will feel equally playable. Other recognizable options include bank, park, pick, rock, link and milk. Check your game’s word list if you are considering a less familiar candidate.

Ways to narrow the list

Use any confirmed letters to sort the possibilities instead of guessing from the ending alone. The 29 B-starting entries make a useful group to scan when B is known.

• Try BACK, BANK or BOOK if the first letter is B.
• Check WORK, WEEK and WALK when W fits your pattern.
• Use the 21 D-starting entries as another focused group.
• Consider TALK, PARK or MILK when those letters match your clues.

High scores for four-letter words ending in K

For a scoring game, the top entry is ZACK at 19 points. JACK, JOCK, ZOUK, ZERK and ZONK each score 17; JUNK and JERK reach 15. The average score across this set is 10.5.

Only 218 of the 279 entries carry a definition, so a few candidates are pure tournament words. If your clue fixes both the final K and a middle letter, the list narrows fast, and the common entries are the quickest to test. For a different word length, compare the K-ending lists linked below.