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Cheka

UK /ˈtʃɛkə/noun

Cheka is a noun meaning “An agent of this organization; a Chekist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-H-E-K-A, and it appears about once in every 14 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Cheka is Chekas.

What does Cheka mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An agent of this organization; a Chekist.

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

How do you pronounce Cheka?

  • UK /ˈtʃɛkə/

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

Forms of Cheka

  • Chekas plural
  • Tcheka

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

How common is Cheka?

Cheka appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 113,022nd 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 Cheka come from?

From the Russian pronunciation of ЧК (ČK), abbreviation of Чрезвыча́йная Коми́ссия (Črezvyčájnaja Komíssija, “extraordinary commission”).

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