leck
German, adjective
leck is spelled L-E-C-K (4 letters) and appears 5.1 times per million words in written German, the 12,050th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Leck is a German adjective meaning “leaky” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Leck is a different word: “leak (hole in a large container, such as in a tank)”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “undicht (besonders von Wasserfahrzeugen)”.
What does leck mean in English?
adjective
- 1
leaky
noun
- 1
neuterleak (hole in a large container, such as in a tank)
- 2
neuterleak (hole in the body of a ship)
- 3
neuterleak (unauthorized release of private or classified information)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. undichte Stelle in einem Gefäß oder einer Leitung, durch die dessen Inhalt (bspw. Flüssigkeiten oder Gase) austreten oder hereinströmen können
adjective: 1. undicht (besonders von Wasserfahrzeugen)
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of leck
- lecker masculine nominative singular
- lecke feminine nominative singular
- leckes neuter nominative singular
- lecken genitive masculine singular
- leckem dative masculine singular
- der lecke definite includes-article masculine
- die lecke definite feminine includes-article
- das lecke definite includes-article neuter
- die lecken definite includes-article nominative
- des lecken definite genitive includes-article
- der lecken definite feminine genitive
- dem lecken dative definite includes-article
- den lecken dative definite includes-article
- Lecks nominative plural
- Leckes genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to leck
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is leck in German?
leck appears 5.1 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).