fleek
/fliːk/
"fleek" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fleek” is uncommon English (frequency #91,509 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,509
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of on fleek.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fleek · fleek · English
fleek · rank #91,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,509
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flaying
Nearest frequency peer: flaying (-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 “fleek”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Filson
Filson
8,500 corpus weight
- flaying
flaying
8,493 corpus weight
- fleek
fleek
8,492 corpus weight
- fluence
fluence
8,489 corpus weight
- fluorescein
fluorescein
8,488 corpus weight
- Fogerty
Fogerty
8,485 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “fleek” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fleek |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /fliːk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fleek” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fleek is uncommon English at frequency #91,509 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /fliːk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of on fleek.".
Zero misspellings are on record for fleek in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Unknown; see on fleek, which may or may not have pre-dated this form. See Merriam-Webster's notes at "on fleek". The correct English form is fleek, spelled F-L-E-E-K.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of on fleek.
Etymology
Unknown; see on fleek, which may or may not have pre-dated this form. See Merriam-Webster's notes at "on fleek".
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).