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freekeh

/ˈfɹiːkɛ/noun

freekeh is a noun meaning “Wheat grains that are harvested while still unripe and then roasted” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-E-K-E-H, and it appears about once in every 59 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does freekeh mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Wheat grains that are harvested while still unripe and then roasted.

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

How do you pronounce freekeh?

  • /ˈfɹiːkɛ/

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

Forms of freekeh

  • farik
  • freekah
  • frikeh

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

How common is freekeh?

Freekeh appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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).

Where does freekeh come from?

Borrowed from Arabic فَرِيكَة (farīka).

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