keek
/kiːk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A look, especially a quick one; a peek.
Example Sentences
Etymology
From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”). Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kieken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick. The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: kyken, kiken, kîken, *kīkan, *kīkaną
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /kiːk/