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deek

/diːk/verb, noun

deek is spelled D-E-E-K: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, deek means “To look” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in deek?

Letters4: D-E-E-K
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 106,501st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is deek?

Deek appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 106,501st 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).

How do you pronounce deek?

  • /diːk/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-deek.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with deek?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as deek.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: deke.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of deek

  • deeks present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • deekin participle, present
  • deeked participle, past

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

What does deek mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To look.

    Hoo man, deek at this.

noun

  1. 1

    A look.

    Take a deek at it.

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

Where does deek come from?

Borrowed from Angloromani [Term?], from Romani dikhel; compare Hindi देखो (dekho, “look”).

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

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