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reak

/ˈɹiːk/obsolete

reak is a noun meaning “A prank” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-A-K, and it appears about once in every 55 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of reak is reaks.

What does reak mean?

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA prank.

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

How do you pronounce reak?

  • /ˈɹiːk/

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

How common is reak?

Reak appears about once in every 55 million words in written English, the 231,291st 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 reak come from?

Compare Icelandic hrekkr, or English wreak vengeance.

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