# deck

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈdɛk/ · frequency rank #3,552

## Definitions
1. Any raised flat surface that can be walked on: a balcony; a porch; a raised patio; a flat rooftop.
2. The floorlike covering of the horizontal sections, or compartments, of a ship or boat. Small vessels have only one deck; larger ships have two or three decks.
3. A main aeroplane surface, especially of a biplane or multiplane.
4. A pack or set of playing cards.
5. A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.
6. A headline consisting of one or more full lines of text; especially, a subheadline.
7. Ellipsis of slide deck: a set of slides for a presentation.
8. A collection of cards (pages or forms) in systems such as WML (Wireless Markup Language) and HyperCard.
9. A heap or store.
10. A folded paper used for distributing illicit drugs.
11. The floor.
12. The bottom of a water body.
13. The stage.
14. Ellipsis of tape deck.
15. The multiset of graphs formed from a single graph by deleting a single vertex in all possible ways.

## Etymology
From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

## Easily confused with
- **doc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-doc)
- **del** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-del)
- **Des** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-des)
- **der** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-der)
- **den** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-den)
- **def** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-def)
- **dem** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dem)
- **Dee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dee)
- **dev** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dev)
- **DNC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dnc)
- **dew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dew)
- **DLC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dlc)
- **DEI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dei)
- **dex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dex)
- **dey** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dey)
- **DRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-drc)
- **deo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-deo)
- **dep** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-dep)
- **duc** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-duc)
- **ded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/deck-vs-ded)

## Common misspellings (6)
`dcek`, `ddeck`, `decck`, `deckk`, `dekc`, `edck`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/deck