Five-letter words matching _PO_K

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SPOOK

A ghost or phantom.

“The building was haunted by a couple of spooks.”

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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SPORK

An eating utensil shaped like a spoon, the bowl of which is divided into tines like those of a fork, and so has the function of both implements; some sporks have a serrated edge so they can also function as a knife.

Source: Wiktionary contributors, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected and lightly formatted from Wiktionary; long entries may be shortened.

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2 five-letter words match _PO_K in this site's Wordle guess list. Of these, 1 is a possible answer.