lepak
/ˌleɪˈpɑk/
"lepak" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lepak” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lepak · lepak · English
lepak · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lepak |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˌleɪˈpɑk/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lepak” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lepak is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /ˌleɪˈpɑk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for lepak, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Malay lepak. The correct English form is lepak, spelled L-E-P-A-K.
Definition
- 1To loiter about casually or idly, to hang around unproductively, to laze around or relax.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lepak appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I think we should rally behind PM [the Prime Minister] for the sake of national unity. Without national unity, there will be more single mothers, abandoned babies, people lepaking (loitering) …
We do things together and we lepak together quite a bit (hey, this is the solution to the lepak problem: the family that lepaks together stays together).
Etymology
Borrowed from Malay lepak.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.