Skip to main content
PlainSpell

kirk

/kɜɹk/noun

kirk is spelled K-I-R-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kirk means “A church” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kirk is kirks.

How many letters and syllables are in kirk?

Letters4: K-I-R-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is kirk?

Kirk appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce kirk?

  • UK /kɜːk/
  • US /kɜɹk/
  • /kɔʶːk/

Kirk has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-kirk.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with kirk?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as kirk from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹk/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of kirk

  • kirks plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does kirk mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    ScotlandA church.

noun

as Kirk
  1. 1

    Fellatio.

verb

as Kirk
  1. 1

    slangTo kill or assassinate, especially for political reasons.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after kirk