Words That Start With

SK

English words beginning with “SK” — sorted by frequency

✦179 words found

🟩31 Wordle words

🟩 5-Letter Words Starting With SK

31 Wordle words

These are valid 5-letter words — exactly the format Wordle uses every day.

SKULK SKANK SKILL SKIRT SKEET SKEIN SKIFF SKIVE SKELP SKUNK SKATE SKOSH SKELL SKINT SKIEY SKIFT SKULL SKIRL SKEEL SKART SKIMP SKINS SKULD SKORT SKAIN SKITE SKUTE SKYES SKYLY SKINK SKIES

🎯 4-Letter Words Starting With SK

16 words

Useful for Scrabble, crossword fill-ins, and short word puzzles.

SKIM SKEW SKIN SKIP SKID SKAG SKIT SKYE SKIL SKUA SKED SKIE SKUG SKEY SKEG SKAT

All Words Starting With SK

179 words — most common first

Sorted by how frequently each word appears in written English.

Word	Letters	Syllables	Type	Definition
skepticism	10	4	noun	(philosophy) A studied attitude of questioning and doubt.
skittish	8	2		Easily scared or startled; timid.
skilled	7	1		Having or showing skill; skillful.
skulk	5	1	verb	To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
skitter	7	2	verb	(intransitive) To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle.
skim	4	1	noun	(transitive) To read quickly or describe summarily, skipping some detail.
skeptical	9	3		Having, or expressing doubt; questioning.
skank	5	1	noun	(derogatory, slang) A lewd and disreputable person, often female, especially an unattractive person with an air of tawdry promiscuity.
skew	4	1	noun	(transitive) To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position.
skirmish	8	2	noun	(military) A brief battle between small groups, usually part of a longer or larger battle or war.
skill	5	1	noun	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
skulking	8	2	noun	The action of one who skulks.
skirt	5	1	noun	A separate article of clothing, usually worn by women and girls, that hangs from the waist and covers the lower torso and part of the legs.
sketch	6	1	noun	(ambitransitive) To make a brief, basic drawing.
skeet	5	1	noun	(uncountable) A form of trapshooting using clay targets to simulate birds in flight.
skin	4	1	noun	(uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
skillful	8	2		Possessing skill; skilled.
skip	4	1	verb	(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
skyline	7	2	noun	The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
skid	4	1	noun	An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car or other vehicle.
skeptic	7	2	noun	Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc. that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
skeleton	8	3	noun	(anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
skein	5	1	noun	A quantity of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a reel then removed and loosely knotted into an oblong shape; a skein of cotton is formed by eighty turns of thread around a reel with a fifty-four inch diameter.
skulduggery	11	4	noun	(uncountable) Dishonest, underhanded, or unscrupulous activities or behaviour.
skills	6	1	noun	A capacity to do something well; a technique, an ability, usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities that are regarded as innate.
skinner	7	2	noun	Someone who skins animals.
skilful	7	2		Commonwealth and Irish form standard spelling of skillful
skulker	7	2	noun	One who stays where they cannot be seen (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm).
skiff	5	1	noun	A small flat-bottomed open boat with a pointed bow and square stern.
skimmer	7	2	noun	(crime) A device used to read and record the magnetic code from a credit card for later fraudulent use.
skag	4	1	noun	(slang) An unattractive woman.
skanky	6	2		(slang) Resembling or characteristic of a skank (disreputable woman).
skreak	6	1	verb	(UK, regional, archaic) creak; shriek; squeak
skrike	6	1	verb	(British, regional) To cry, sob, cry out or yell; to scream.
skive	5	1	noun	(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
skeletal	8	3	noun	of, or relating to the skeleton
skyscape	8	2	noun	The view of the sky, often including the skyline
skimming	8	2	noun	(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a magnetic stripe from a magnetic stripe card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a skimmer
skedaddle	9	3	verb	(informal, intransitive, US) To move or run away quickly.
skinned	7	1		Having skin.
skit	4	1	noun	A short comic performance done by amateurs.
sketchy	7	2		(Canada, US, slang) Of questionable or doubtful quality.
skelp	5	1	noun	(transitive, Scotland, Northern England) To beat or slap with the hand.
skeeter	7	2	noun	(US, informal) A mosquito.
skittery	8	3		skittish
skeeve	6	1	noun	(slang, transitive, often with out) To disgust or disturb.
skillset	8	2	noun	Alternative form of skill set. [A set of skills.]
skeeze	6	1	noun	(slang, mildly derogatory) A sleazy or sexually promiscuous person.
skyglow	7	2	noun	The illumination of the sky above populated areas, mostly by street lighting.
sky	3	1	noun	The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the surface of the Earth as the place where the sun, moon, stars, and clouds are seen.
skunk	5	1	noun	Any of various small mammals, of most genera of the family Mephitidae, native to North and Central America, having a glossy black with a white coat and two musk glands at the base of the tail for emitting a noxious smell as a defensive measure.
skipper	7	2	noun	(nautical) The master of a ship.
skylight	8	2	noun	(architecture) A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.
skate	5	1	noun	A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foot, and used for gliding on ice.
skewed	6	1		(statistics, of information) Biased, distorted
skillfully	10	3		In a skillful manner; with skill.
skelly	6	2	noun	(slang) A skeleton, especially a human one.
skosh	5	1	noun	(informal) A tiny amount; a little bit.
skell	5	1	noun	(slang, US, New York) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
skittering	10	3	noun	The act of one who skitters.
skeevy	6	2		(slang) Disgusting or distasteful.
skeered	7	1	verb	Pronunciation spelling of scared. [Feeling fear; afraid, frightened.]
skettle	7	2	noun	(Caribbean, Jamaica, derogatory, slang) A promiscuous woman.
skywatcher	10	3	noun	One who skywatches.
skewer	6	2	noun	A long pin, normally made of metal or wood, used to secure food during cooking.
skiffle	7	2	noun	A type of folk music, with jazz and blues influences, using homemade or improvised instruments.
skirting	8	2	noun	The act of one who skirts around something, or avoids it.
skimpy	6	2	noun	(of a garment) Very small, light, or revealing.
skiver	6	2	noun	A slacker.
skivvy	6	2	noun	(US, Australia, New Zealand) A close-fitting, long-sleeved T-shirt with a rolled collar.
skint	5	1		(slang, UK, Commonwealth, Ireland) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
skye	4	1	noun	A female given name transferred from the place name, of modern usage, or a fanciful spelling of the word sky.
skimmed	7	1		used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed
skirted	7	2		Wearing a skirt.
skipped	7	1	verb	(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
skiey	5	2		Alternative form of skyey. [(poetic) Resembling the sky.]
skoosh	6	1	verb	(informal, chiefly Scotland) To squirt.
skift	5	1	noun	(dialectal, including Scotland, Shetland and Appalachia) Synonym of skiff (“light shower of rain or snow; light dusting of snow or ice (on ground, water, etc)”).
skeletonic	10	3		Like a skeleton.
skryer	6	1	noun	Alternative form of scryer. [One who divines, sees or predicts the future by means of a scrying tool; especially a crystal ball.]
skrimshanker	12	3	noun	Alternative form of scrimshanker. [(UK, military, slang) A shirker; one who scrimshanks.]
skull	5	1	noun	(anatomy) The main bones of the head considered as a unit; including the cranium, facial bones, and mandible.
skinny	6	2	noun	(informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
skinflint	9	2	noun	One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.
skullcap	8	2	noun	(anatomy) The calvaria, the top part of the skull, covering the cranial cavity containing the brain.
skyrocket	9	3	verb	(intransitive) To rise or increase suddenly and extremely; to shoot up; to surge or spike.
skirl	5	1	noun	(Scotland, Northern England) To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes.
skewbald	8	2	noun	(of horses) Marked with patches of white and non-black colours.
ska	3	1	noun	(music) A style of Jamaican dance music originating in the late 1950s, combining elements of Caribbean calypso and mento with American jazz and rhythm and blues; it was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
skullduggery	12	4	noun	US spelling of skulduggery. [(countable) A devious device or trick.]
skeptically	11	4		(American spelling) In a skeptical manner, with skepticism.
skillfulness	12	3	noun	The state or quality of being adept or skillful.
skidded	7	2	verb	(intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
skirling	8	2	noun	(Northern England and Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
skelter	7	2	noun	(colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
skidoo	6	2	noun	A snowmobile.
skinch	6	1	verb	(slang) To give scant measure; to squeeze or pinch in order to effect a saving.
skookum	7	2	noun	(US, historical) A kind of Native American-themed souvenir doll once common in tourist areas.
skeel	5	1	noun	(UK, Scotland, dialect) A washtub.
skelder	7	2	noun	(archaic) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
skart	5	1	noun	(UK, dialect) Alternative form of scarf (“cormorant”). [A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.]
skreigh	7	1	verb	utter a harsh abrupt scream
skurry	6	2	noun	Dated form of scurry. [To run with quick light steps, to scamper.]
skunky	6	2		Resembling a skunk; especially, having a strong or unpleasant odor or (of food, drink) taste.
skeletology	11	5	noun	(archaic) osteology; The branch of anatomy that deals with the skeleton.
skulks	6	1	verb	To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection.
skil	4	1	noun	Synonym of sablefish.
skolion	7	2	noun	Alternative spelling of scolion. [(Greek antiquities) Any of a genre of songs sung in turn by symposiasts to the accompaniment of a lyre.]
skelper	7	2	noun	A kind of hammer used in metalworking.
skinship	8	2	noun	(particularly Japan, South Korea) Bonding through physical (touch, skin-to-skin) contact; particularly between family members, relatives and loved ones.
skuttle	7	2	noun	Archaic form of scuttle. [(transitive, nautical) To cut a hole or holes through the bottom, deck, or sides of (as of a ship), for any purpose.]
skeery	6	2		Pronunciation spelling of scary. [(now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety]
skeezy	6	2		(slang) Sleazy.
skyfire	7	3	noun	—
skathi	6	2	noun	(astronomy) A moon of Saturn.
skeary	6	1		(US) Pronunciation spelling of scary. [(now chiefly informal) Causing fear or anxiety]
skillfull	9	2		Misspelling of skillful. [Possessing skill; skilled.]
skvader	7	2	noun	A fictional creature, associated with an old Swedish hunting story, that is half hare and half wood grouse.
skygazing	9	3	noun	stargazing
skyscraper	10	3	noun	(architecture) A very tall building with a large number of floors.