pleck
/plɛk/noun
pleck is a noun meaning “A plot of ground” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-L-E-C-K, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of pleck is plecks.
What does pleck mean?
noun
- 1
UKA plot of ground.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce pleck?
- /plɛk/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of pleck
- plecks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is pleck?
Pleck appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st 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 pleck come from?
From Middle English pleck, plek, perhaps a variation of plack, or perhaps from Middle Dutch plecke, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *plakkju, from Proto-Germanic *plakjō (“spot, stain”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).