Daily word games to challenge your mind
A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NK often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: blank, blink, brank.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| blank | 5 | 1 | |
| blink | 5 | 1 | |
| brank | 5 | 1 | |
| brink | 5 | 1 | |
| chunk | 5 | 1 | |
| clank | 5 | 1 | |
| clink | 5 | 1 | |
| clonk | 5 | 1 | |
| clunk | 5 | 1 | |
| crank | 5 | 1 | |
| drank | 5 | 1 | |
| drink | 5 | 1 | |
| drunk | 5 | 1 | |
| flank | 5 | 1 | |
| flunk | 5 | 1 | |
| frank | 5 | 1 | |
| plank | 5 | 1 | |
| plink | 5 | 1 | |
| plonk | 5 | 1 | |
| plunk | 5 | 1 | |
| prank | 5 | 1 | |
| prink | 5 | 1 | |
| reink | 5 | 1 | |
| shank | 5 | 1 | |
| skink | 5 | 1 | |
| skunk | 5 | 1 | |
| slank | 5 | 1 | |
| slink | 5 | 1 | |
| slunk | 5 | 1 | |
| spank | 5 | 1 | |
| spunk | 5 | 1 | |
| stank | 5 | 1 | |
| stink | 5 | 1 | |
| stunk | 5 | 1 | |
| swank | 5 | 1 | |
| swink | 5 | 1 | |
| thank | 5 | 1 | |
| think | 5 | 1 | |
| thunk | 5 | 1 | |
| trank | 5 | 1 | |
| trunk | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about NK-ending words?
NK often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.