Weekes

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"weekes" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Weekes” is uncommon English (frequency #70,396 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,396
frequency rank, English
1,759
“W” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A surname.

Corpus desk

Index EN-weekes · Weekes · English

Weekes · rank #70,396 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,396
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,759
  • PHOTO-FINISH Wessel

Nearest frequency peer: Wessel (+1 rank slots)

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.

Long-tail ranks near “Weekes”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “Weekes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Weekes
PropertyValue
HeadwordWeekes
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters6
Frequency rank#70,396
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Weekes” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Weekesfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “Wessel” (#70,397), “WGA” (#70,398), “wheelwright” (#70,399). Among 1,759 “W” headwords, “Weekes” is #70,396. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Weekes is uncommon English at frequency #70,396 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

No generated misspelling entries exist for Weekes in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is Weekes, spelled W-E-E-K-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A placename
  3. 3
    A placename

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Weekes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. On the podcast, Gaines and his co-host Walter Weekes (Fresh), regularly refer to women as “hoes” or 304s (304 on an upside-down calculator looks like the word “hoe”).

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Weekes"?
"Weekes" is spelled W-E-E-K-E-S.
What does "Weekes" mean?
As a proper noun, "Weekes" means: A surname.
What language does "Weekes" come from?
"Weekes" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Weekes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Wessel#70,397Wallin#70,390Witham#70,408Wotton#70,411

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list