chek
noun
chek is a noun meaning “A Hong Kong foot” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-K and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of chek is cheks.
What does chek mean?
noun
- 1
A Hong Kong foot.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce chek?
Chek 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).
Forms of chek
- cheks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is chek?
Chek appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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).
Where does chek come from?
From the Yale romanization of the Cantonese 尺 (cek³). Doublet of chi.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).