steck
/stɛk/obsolete
steck is a noun meaning “A piece or an item” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-E-C-K and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of steck is stecks.
What does steck mean?
noun
- 1
ScotlandobsoleteA piece or an item.
a steck o' bread
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce steck?
- /stɛk/
Steck 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).
Forms of steck
- stek
- steik
- stike
- steek
- steak
- steyk
- styk
- staig
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is steck?
Steck appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st 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 steck come from?
From Middle English stic, from Middle Dutch stucke, sticke, from Old Dutch *stukki, *stikki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).