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A curated list of 6-letter words tailored to this exact pattern. Endings like NKS often mark word families—helpful to confirm tense or morphology. For example: blanks, blinks, branks.
| Word | Definition | Length | Syllables |
|---|---|---|---|
| blanks | 6 | 1 | |
| blinks | 6 | 1 | |
| branks | 6 | 1 | |
| brinks | 6 | 1 | |
| chunks | 6 | 1 | |
| clanks | 6 | 1 | |
| clinks | 6 | 1 | |
| clonks | 6 | 1 | |
| clunks | 6 | 1 | |
| cranks | 6 | 1 | |
| drinks | 6 | 1 | |
| drunks | 6 | 1 | |
| flanks | 6 | 1 | |
| flunks | 6 | 1 | |
| franks | 6 | 1 | |
| planks | 6 | 1 | |
| plinks | 6 | 1 | |
| plonks | 6 | 1 | |
| plunks | 6 | 1 | |
| pranks | 6 | 1 | |
| prinks | 6 | 1 | |
| reinks | 6 | 1 | |
| shanks | 6 | 1 | |
| skinks | 6 | 1 | |
| skunks | 6 | 1 | |
| slinks | 6 | 1 | |
| spanks | 6 | 1 | |
| spunks | 6 | 1 | |
| stanks | 6 | 1 | |
| stinks | 6 | 1 | |
| swanks | 6 | 1 | |
| swinks | 6 | 1 | |
| thanks | 6 | 1 | |
| thinks | 6 | 1 | |
| thunks | 6 | 1 | |
| tranks | 6 | 1 | |
| trunks | 6 | 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.