Definition of ILK

ilk

Plural: ilks

Noun

  • A type, kind, or sort of people or things.
  • a kind of person
    • "I can't tolerate people of his ilk"
  • A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.

Adj

  • Very; same.

Examples

  • Players of that ILK always save their ’S’ tiles for big plural plays.

Origin / Etymology

Inherited from Middle English ilke, from Old English ilca, conjectured as from Proto-Germanic *ilīkaz, a compound of *iz and *-līkaz from the noun *līką (“body”).
The sense of “type”, “kind” is from the application of the phrase of that ilk to families: the word thus came to mean family.

Synonyms

like, hue, kind, likes, sort, type

Scrabble Score: 7

ilk: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
ilk: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ilk: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 8

ilk: valid Words With Friends Word