flecked
/flɛkt/
"flecked" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flecked” is uncommon English (frequency #65,120 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,120
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Containing flecks
Corpus desk
Index EN-flecked · flecked · English
flecked · rank #65,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,120
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Flavius
Nearest frequency peer: Flavius (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “flecked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- favouritism
favouritism
34,889 corpus weight
- fivefold
fivefold
34,883 corpus weight
- Flavius
Flavius
34,882 corpus weight
- flecked
flecked
34,881 corpus weight
- fomenting
fomenting
34,878 corpus weight
- footings
footings
34,876 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flecked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flecked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /flɛkt/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flecked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flecked is uncommon English at frequency #65,120 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /flɛkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Containing flecks".
flecked doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is flecked, spelled F-L-E-C-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Containing flecks
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).