Definitions for ilk

ilk ilk

Spelling: [ilk]
IPA: /ɪlk/

Ilk is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 12 anagrams from letters in ilk (ikl).

Definitions for ilk

noun

  1. family, class, or kind:

Idioms

  1. of that ilk, (in Scotland) of the same family name or place: of the same class or kind.

pronoun

  1. each.

adjective

  1. same.
  2. each; every.

Origin of ilk

before 900; Middle English ilke, Old English ilca (pronoun) the same, equivalent to demonstrative i (cognate with Gothic is he, Latin is that) + a reduced form of līc lik

Examples for ilk

Harpies of this ilk are the bane of sight-seeing all the world over.

And, as pretty much every show of this ilk has proved, that formula works.

The collections, then, those from Mr. Young and his ilk excepted, were satisfactory.

All right, so we know that Loestrin and its ilk are, as Redmond terms it, “hair-unfriendly pills.”

You remember Mrs. Wallace, don't you—Pritchard, of that ilk?

Thus I get a perspective upon the place, to Will and his ilk denied.

As much as the NRA and its ilk want to deny it, having a gun in the home is a risk factor for serious injury or death.

Him's got a bib on 'ike Trouble when him eats bread and 'ilk.

We can thank Lisa Kudrow for the rise of celeb reality TV—Real Housewives, the Kardashians, Honey Boo Boo and its ilk.

Like maybe the line that Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and others of their ilk are pushing?

Word Value for ilk
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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