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A curated list of 5-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NKS often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: banks, bonks, bunks.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| banks | 5 | 1 | |
| bonks | 5 | 1 | |
| bunks | 5 | 1 | |
| conks | 5 | 1 | |
| dinks | 5 | 1 | |
| dunks | 5 | 1 | |
| finks | 5 | 1 | |
| funks | 5 | 1 | |
| ginks | 5 | 1 | |
| gunks | 5 | 1 | |
| hanks | 5 | 1 | |
| honks | 5 | 1 | |
| hunks | 5 | 1 | |
| jinks | 5 | 1 | |
| junks | 5 | 1 | |
| kinks | 5 | 1 | |
| konks | 5 | 1 | |
| links | 5 | 1 | |
| lunks | 5 | 1 | |
| minks | 5 | 1 | |
| monks | 5 | 1 | |
| oinks | 5 | 1 | |
| pinks | 5 | 1 | |
| punks | 5 | 1 | |
| ranks | 5 | 1 | |
| rinks | 5 | 1 | |
| sinks | 5 | 1 | |
| tanks | 5 | 1 | |
| wanks | 5 | 1 | |
| winks | 5 | 1 | |
| wonks | 5 | 1 | |
| yanks | 5 | 1 | |
| zonks | 5 | 1 |
What’s typical about NKS-ending words?
NKS often marks suffix families; think about derivatives when guessing.
Do you include UK/US spellings?
Where they exist, both may appear.