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paik

noun

paik is spelled P-A-I-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, paik means “A foot soldier or armed attendant, in some cases holding land in exchange for military service” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of paik is paiks.

How many letters and syllables are in paik?

Letters4: P-A-I-K
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 9 million words; the 89,388th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 paik?

Paik appears about once in every 9 million words in written English, the 89,388th 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 paik?

    Paik has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

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

    What rhymes with paik?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as paik.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: pika.

    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 paik

    • paiks plural
    • paick
    • payak
    • payik
    • pyke

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

    What does paik mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      IndiaA foot soldier or armed attendant, in some cases holding land in exchange for military service.

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

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