dek
/dɛk/noun, number
dek is spelled D-E-K: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dek means “The subhead of a news story” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dek is deks.
How many letters and syllables are in dek?
| Letters | 3: D-E-K |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 81,375th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 dek?
Dek appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 81,375th 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 dek?
- /dɛk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-dek.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-deque.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dek?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as dek.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ked.
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 dek
- deks plural
- deck
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does dek mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangThe subhead of a news story.
number
- 1
The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does dek come from?
Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).