8-letter words ending in K

8-letter words ending in K number 499, from familiar picks like feedback and homework to high-scoring choices like KAZACHOK.

499 wordsTop pick FEEDBACKHighest score KAZACHOK 30

28 of 499 are everyday words (6%). Mostly rare words: great for Scrabble, tough for daily puzzles.

Letter
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

S ends the most 8-letter words (14,500); V ends the fewest (5). K ranks #14 of 26. The bar under each letter shows the size of its list.

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Common words 28 · most-used first

FEEDBACK₂₀
HOMEWORK₂₀
COMEBACK₂₀
OUTBREAK₁₄
LANDMARK₁₅
HANDBOOK₁₈
BACKPACK₂₄
TEXTBOOK₂₁
NOTEBOOK₁₄
SHERLOCK₁₇
LIPSTICK₁₆
SIDEWALK₁₆
OVERLOOK₁₅
PAYCHECK₂₄
TEAMWORK₁₇
YEARBOOK₁₇
HALLMARK₁₇
COOKBOOK₂₀
MAVERICK₁₉
PLAYBACK₂₁
BALLPARK₁₆
PLAYBOOK₁₉
SIDEKICK₁₉
FULLBACK₁₉
DRAWBACK₂₀
WOODWORK₁₉
BISMARCK₁₈
FOOTWORK₁₈

All valid words 499

A to Z. Includes rare and Collins-only words. Linked tiles open the word's meaning, score and rhymes.

AARDVARK₁₆
ABELMOSK₁₆
ABRICOCK₁₈
AIRBRICK₁₆
AIRCHECK₁₉
ALCOLOCK₁₆
ALMANACK₁₆
ANGEKKOK₂₁
ANTILEAK₁₂
ANTILOCK₁₄
ANTIMASK₁₄
ANTIROCK₁₄
ANTITANK₁₂
APRICOCK₁₈
ASTERISK₁₂
BACKPACK₂₄
BACKTALK₂₀
BACKWORK₂₃
BALDRICK₁₇
BALLCOCK₁₈
BALLHAWK₂₀
BALLPARK₁₆
BANKBOOK₂₀
BAREBACK₁₈
BARESARK₁₄
BASILISK₁₄
BAUDRICK₁₇
BEADWORK₁₈
BENEDICK₁₇
BESTREAK₁₄
BETHWACK₂₂
BIGSTICK₁₇
BILLBOOK₁₆
BILLHOOK₁₇
BISMARCK₁₈
BITSTOCK₁₆
BLESBUCK₁₈
BLOWBACK₂₁
BLUEBACK₁₈
BLUEBOOK₁₆
BLUEBUCK₁₈
BLUEJACK₂₃
BLUETICK₁₆
BOATHOOK₁₇
BOATNECK₁₆
BOBOLINK₁₆
BODYWORK₂₁
BONTEBOK₁₆
BOOKMARK₂₀
BOOKRACK₂₀
BOOKWORK₂₁
BOONDOCK₁₇
BOOTJACK₂₃
BOOTLICK₁₆
BOSCHBOK₂₁
BOSHVARK₂₀
BOYCHICK₂₄
BRATPACK₁₈
BUHLWORK₂₀
BULLCOOK₁₆
BULLNECK₁₆
BUSHBUCK₂₁
BUSHWALK₂₀
BUSYWORK₂₀
CAGEWORK₁₈
CAKEWALK₂₁
CALFLICK₁₉
CALLBACK₁₈
CANSTICK₁₆
CANTHOOK₁₇
CAPEWORK₁₉
CARETOOK₁₄
CASEBOOK₁₆
CASEWORK₁₇
CASHBACK₂₁
CASHBOOK₁₉
CHAPBOOK₂₁
CHARLOCK₁₉
CHEEWINK₂₀
CHIPMUCK₂₃
CHIPMUNK₂₁
CLAPBACK₂₀
CLAWBACK₂₁
CLAYBANK₁₉
COALSACK₁₆
COATRACK₁₆
CODEBOOK₁₇
COLDCOCK₁₉
COMEBACK₂₀
COOKBOOK₂₀
COPYBOOK₂₁
COPYDESK₂₀
CORNHUSK₁₇
CORNSILK₁₄
CREWNECK₁₉
CRIBWORK₁₉
CROPSICK₁₈
CRUMMACK₂₀
CRUMMOCK₂₀
CRYOBANK₁₉
CUFFLINK₂₀
CUTBLOCK₁₈
DABCHICK₂₂
DATABANK₁₅
DATEBOOK₁₅
DAYBREAK₁₈
DEADLOCK₁₆
DIESTOCK₁₅
DIPCHICK₂₂
DIPSTICK₁₇
DISFROCK₁₈
DOBCHICK₂₂
DOMINICK₁₇
DOWNLINK₁₆
DOWNTICK₁₈
DRAMMOCK₁₉
DRAWBACK₂₀
DROPKICK₂₁
DRUMMOCK₁₉
DUCKWALK₂₂
DUCTWORK₁₈
ECOFREAK₁₇
EELWRACK₁₇
EGGWHISK₂₀
EYEBLACK₁₉
EYEBLINK₁₇
EYESTALK₁₅
FACEMASK₁₉
FALLBACK₁₉
FARMWORK₂₀
FASTBACK₁₉
FATSTOCK₁₇
FAUXHAWK₂₈
FEEDBACK₂₀
FINNMARK₁₇
FIREBACK₁₉
FIRELOCK₁₇
FIREMARK₁₇
FIREPINK₁₇
FIREWORK₁₈
FISHHOOK₂₁
FLAPJACK₂₆
FLATBACK₁₉
FLATPACK₁₉
FLATWORK₁₈
FLEISHIK₁₈
FLIPBOOK₁₉
FLOWBACK₂₂
FLUEWORK₁₈
FLYSPECK₂₂
FOLDBACK₂₀
FOOTMARK₁₇
FOOTWORK₁₈
FOREDECK₁₈
FOREHOCK₂₀
FORELOCK₁₇
FOREMILK₁₇
FOREPEAK₁₇
FORERANK₁₅
FORMWORK₂₀
FORSLACK₁₇
FORSPEAK₁₇
FORSWINK₁₈
FORSWUNK₁₈
FORTHINK₁₈
FOXSHARK₂₅
FRETWORK₁₈
FULLBACK₁₉
GAMEBOOK₁₇
GAMECOCK₁₉
GAVELOCK₁₈
GEMSBUCK₁₉
GIMCRACK₁₉
GIVEBACK₂₀
GRAYBACK₂₀
GREYBACK₂₀
GRIDLOCK₁₆
GRIPSACK₁₇
GROSBEAK₁₅
GUNSTICK₁₅
GUNSTOCK₁₅
HACKWORK₂₄
HAIRLOCK₁₇
HAIRWORK₁₈
HALFBACK₂₂
HALFBEAK₂₀
HALLMARK₁₇
HANDBOOK₁₈
HANDPICK₂₀
HANDWORK₁₉
HARDBACK₂₀
HARDHACK₂₁
HARDPACK₂₀
HARDROCK₁₈
HARDTACK₁₈
HASHMARK₂₀
HATCHECK₂₂
HAULBACK₁₉
HAVELOCK₂₀
HAYSTACK₂₀
HEADFUCK₂₁
HEADLOCK₁₈
HEADMARK₁₈
HEADWORK₁₉
HELIDECK₁₈
HELITACK₁₇
HELPDESK₁₈
HERDWICK₂₁
HIGHJACK₂₈
HILLFOLK₁₈
HINDMILK₁₈
HOLDBACK₂₀
HOMESICK₁₉
HOMEWORK₂₀
HOODWINK₁₉
HORNBEAK₁₇
HORNBOOK₁₇
HORNWORK₁₈
HOWLBACK₂₂
HUMORESK₁₇
HUMPBACK₂₃
HYMNBOOK₂₂
ICEBLINK₁₆
INUKSHUK₁₉
IRONBARK₁₄
IRONWORK₁₅
JESTBOOK₂₁
JIMCRACK₂₅
JOYSTICK₂₄
KAZACHOK₃₀
KENSPECK₂₀
KERPLUNK₁₈
KICKBACK₂₆
KINSFOLK₁₉
KNAPSACK₂₀
KNEEJERK₂₃
KNEESOCK₁₈
KNOTWORK₁₉
KOFTWORK₂₂
KUVASZOK₂₈
LACEBARK₁₆
LACEWORK₁₇
LANDMARK₁₅
LATHWORK₁₈
LAVEROCK₁₇
LEADWORK₁₆
LIFEWORK₁₈
LIFTBACK₁₉
LIKEWALK₁₉
LIMERICK₁₆
LINKWORK₁₉
LINSTOCK₁₄
LIPOSUCK₁₆
LIPSTICK₁₆
LOANBACK₁₆
LOBSTICK₁₆
LOCKPICK₂₂
LONGNECK₁₅
LOPSTICK₁₆
LOVELOCK₁₇
LOVESICK₁₇
LUDERICK₁₅
LUTEFISK₁₅
LYKEWALK₂₂
MAILSACK₁₆
MALSTICK₁₆
MAMATEEK₁₆
MAPSTICK₁₈
MAVERICK₁₉
MEATHOOK₁₇
MEGABUCK₁₉
MESHWORK₂₀
MILLWORK₁₇
MINDFUCK₂₀
MINIDISK₁₅
MINIPARK₁₆
MISSPEAK₁₆
MISTHINK₁₇
MONOMARK₁₆
MOONROCK₁₆
MOONWALK₁₇
MOORCOCK₁₈
MOPEHAWK₂₂
MOPSTICK₁₈
MOREPORK₁₆
MOSSBACK₁₈
MUCKLUCK₂₂
NAINSOOK₁₂
NASTALIK₁₂
NETSPEAK₁₄
NEWSDESK₁₆
NEWSHAWK₂₁
NEWSPEAK₁₇
NICKNACK₂₀
NINEBARK₁₄
NOISENIK₁₂
NONBLACK₁₆
NONSTICK₁₄
NOTEBOOK₁₄
NUMCHUCK₂₁
NUNCHUCK₁₉
OFFTRACK₂₀
OPENWORK₁₇
OUTBREAK₁₄
OUTDRANK₁₃
OUTDRINK₁₃
OUTDRUNK₁₃
OUTFLANK₁₅
OUTSLICK₁₄
OUTSPEAK₁₄
OUTTHANK₁₅
OUTTHINK₁₅
OUTTRICK₁₄
OVERBOOK₁₇
OVERBULK₁₇
OVERCOOK₁₇
OVERDECK₁₈
OVERLOCK₁₇
OVERLOOK₁₅
OVERMEEK₁₇
OVERMILK₁₇
OVERPACK₁₉
OVERRACK₁₇
OVERRANK₁₅
OVERSICK₁₇
OVERSOAK₁₅
OVERTALK₁₅
OVERTASK₁₅
OVERTOOK₁₅
OVERWEAK₁₈
OVERWORK₁₈
PACKSACK₂₂
PAITRICK₁₆
PALEBUCK₁₈
PARBREAK₁₆
PARTWORK₁₇
PASHALIK₁₇
PASSBOOK₁₆
PAYCHECK₂₄
PEACENIK₁₆
PEACHICK₂₁
PENNEECK₁₆
PENSTOCK₁₆
PHINNOCK₁₉
PICKBACK₂₄
PICKLOCK₂₂
PICKWICK₂₅
PIGSTICK₁₇
PIGSTUCK₁₇
PILEWORK₁₇
PINCHECK₂₁
PINPRICK₁₈
PIPEWORK₁₉
PIROZHOK₂₆
PLAYBACK₂₁
PLAYBOOK₁₉
PLOWBACK₂₁
POCKMARK₂₂
POLITICK₁₆
PORTAPAK₁₆
POSTMARK₁₆
POSTPUNK₁₆
PRACTICK₁₈
PRECHECK₂₁
PREFRANK₁₇
PRINCOCK₁₈
PUFFBACK₂₄
PULLBACK₁₈
PUMPJACK₂₇
PUSHBACK₂₁
PUTCHOCK₂₁
RACEWALK₁₇
RACKWORK₂₁
REAPHOOK₁₇
REATTACK₁₄
REDBRICK₁₇
REDSHANK₁₆
REEDBUCK₁₇
REEMBARK₁₆
REFUSNIK₁₅
RESTRUCK₁₄
RETURNIK₁₂
RICKRACK₂₀
RILLMARK₁₄
RINGBARK₁₅
RINGNECK₁₅
RINGWORK₁₆
ROADWORK₁₆
ROCKWORK₂₁
ROLLBACK₁₆
ROLLNECK₁₄
ROORBACK₁₆
ROPEWALK₁₇
ROPEWORK₁₇
RUCKSACK₂₀
SALTWORK₁₅
SANDBANK₁₅
SATYRISK₁₅
SAWSHARK₁₈
SCATBACK₁₈
SCUTWORK₁₇
SEASPEAK₁₄
SEATBACK₁₆
SEATWORK₁₅
SELAMLIK₁₄
SHABRACK₁₉
SHADDOCK₁₉
SHAGBARK₁₈
SHAMROCK₁₉
SHASHLIK₁₈
SHELDUCK₁₈
SHELLACK₁₇
SHERLOCK₁₇
SHITWORK₁₈
SHOEPACK₁₉
SHOPTALK₁₇
SIDEKICK₁₉
SIDELOCK₁₅
SIDEWALK₁₆
SITZMARK₂₃
SKERRICK₁₈
SKEWBACK₂₃
SKIPJACK₂₇
SLAPJACK₂₃
SLOMMOCK₁₈
SLOPWORK₁₇
SLOTBACK₁₆
SLOWBACK₁₉
SLUMMOCK₁₈
SNAPBACK₁₈
SNAPLINK₁₄
SNOWBANK₁₇
SNOWPACK₁₉
SOAPBARK₁₆
SOFTBACK₁₉
SONGBOOK₁₅
SPANSPEK₁₆
STEENBOK₁₄
STEINBOK₁₄
STEMBUCK₁₈
STENLOCK₁₄
STOPBANK₁₆
STOPCOCK₁₈
STUDBOOK₁₅
STUDWORK₁₆
SUBBLOCK₁₈
SUBCLERK₁₆
SUNBLOCK₁₆
SWAYBACK₂₂
TAILBACK₁₆
TAILHOOK₁₅
TALKBACK₂₀
TAMARACK₁₆
TAMARISK₁₄
TASKWORK₁₉
TEAMWORK₁₇
TELEMARK₁₄
TELEWORK₁₅
TEXTBOOK₂₁
TICKTACK₂₀
TICKTOCK₂₀
TIDEMARK₁₅
TIEBREAK₁₄
TIMEWORK₁₇
TIPSTOCK₁₆
TOMAHAWK₂₀
TOWNFOLK₁₈
TRAPROCK₁₆
TROCHISK₁₇
TUBEWORK₁₇
TURNBACK₁₆
TURNCOCK₁₆
UNSHRUNK₁₅
UNSTRUCK₁₄
VIEWBOOK₂₀
VOERTSAK₁₅
VOERTSEK₁₅
WHIPJACK₂₉
WHITRACK₂₀
WHITRICK₂₀
WINDPACK₂₀
WINDSOCK₁₈
WINGBACK₂₀
WIREWORK₁₈
WOODCOCK₂₀
WOODLARK₁₆
WOODWORK₁₉
WOOLPACK₁₉
WOOLSACK₁₇
WOOLWORK₁₈
WORDBOOK₁₈
WORKBOOK₂₁
WORKFOLK₂₂
WORKWEEK₂₂
YARDWORK₁₉
YEARBOOK₁₇
YELDROCK₁₈
ZOMBORUK₂₅
ZWIEBACK₂₈

Letters by positionIn 49% of these words the 7th letter is C.

1st letter

S11%
B10%
F8%

2nd letter

O21%
A18%
I14%

4th letter

E15%
S10%
T10%

5th letter

B21%
W15%
R10%

6th letter

A33%
O33%
I15%

7th letter

C49%
R18%
O10%

Highest-scoring words

Scrabble and Words With Friends points, before board bonuses

Score spreadMost of these words score 17 in Scrabble; KAZACHOK tops the list with 30. Scores before board bonuses.

1212 points: 7 words
13 points: 3 words
1414 points: 32 words
15 points: 39 words
1616 points: 74 words
17 points: 77 words
1818 points: 75 words
19 points: 54 words
2020 points: 54 words
21 points: 31 words
2222 points: 22 words
23 points: 9 words
2424 points: 7 words
25 points: 4 words
2626 points: 3 words
27 points: 2 words
2828 points: 4 words
29 points: 1 words
3030 points: 1 words

Word	Scrabble	Words With Friends	Dictionaries
KAZACHOK	30	30	All three
WHIPJACK	29	32	Collins only
HIGHJACK	28	30	All three
FAUXHAWK	28	28	NWL only
ZWIEBACK	28	30	All three
KUVASZOK	28	30	All three
SKIPJACK	27	31	All three
PUMPJACK	27	34	NWL only
KICKBACK	26	29	All three
FLAPJACK	26	31	All three
PIROZHOK	26	26	All three
PICKWICK	25	28	All three

The K ending narrows an eight-letter search sharply: the S-ending list has 14,500 words, compared with 499 here. Familiar compounds make this group easier to scan than its size suggests, but only 28 entries rank among the most common English words. Use the examples below to test a clue.

8-letter words ending in K at a glance

There are 499 tournament-dictionary entries ending in K.
Feedback, homework, and comeback are recognizable examples.
Only 28 entries fall within the top 25,000 English words by frequency.
The average tile score is 18.1 points.
KAZACHOK leads the scoring examples at 30 points.

Which everyday words end in K?

Start with compounds: feedback, homework, comeback, outbreak, and landmark all fit the eight-letter pattern. Handbook, backpack, textbook, and notebook offer more concrete objects to check against a clue. These familiar words sit alongside hundreds of less common entries, so a recognizable match is a good first pass, not a complete search.

The frequency gap matters: just 28 words in this group are among the top 25,000 English words, even though 409 have dictionary definitions. That makes this a list with plenty of playable entries beyond everyday vocabulary. If your clue points to a less familiar word, verify its meaning and acceptance in your game before committing.

How do the scores and dictionaries compare?

KAZACHOK scores 30 points, ahead of WHIPJACK at 29. HIGHJACK, FAUXHAWK, ZWIEBACK, and KUVASZOK each score 28. Those are striking scoring options, but they are less familiar than feedback or sidewalk; the top of the score list is not the best place to start when solving a definition clue.

Dictionary coverage varies: Collins includes 475 entries, NWL2023 includes 383, and ENABLE includes 325, while the combined tournament-dictionary total is 499. Those counts overlap, so they do not add up to the total. Some words will be accepted in one game's word list and rejected in another; check your game's dictionary before relying on an unusual answer.

Questions people ask

How many eight-letter words end in K?

There are 499 eight-letter words ending in K across the tournament dictionaries counted here. The group includes familiar words such as feedback and homework, plus less common entries. Dictionary coverage differs: Collins has 475, NWL2023 has 383, and ENABLE has 325.

What is the highest-scoring eight-letter word ending in K?

KAZACHOK is the highest-scoring example at 30 points. WHIPJACK follows at 29, while HIGHJACK, FAUXHAWK, ZWIEBACK, and KUVASZOK each score 28. These high scorers are less familiar than common choices such as feedback.

Are there common words that end in K and have eight letters?

Yes. Feedback, homework, comeback, outbreak, and landmark are recognizable eight-letter examples ending in K. Still, only 28 words in the group rank among the top 25,000 English words by frequency, so many valid entries are uncommon.

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