pleck
/plɛk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.22 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A hamlet in Batcombe parish, Dorset, England, previously in West Dorset district (OS grid ref ST6104).
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A small area of Hazelbury Bryan, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7408).
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A hamlet in Marnhull parish, Dorset, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST7717).
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A suburb in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SO9997).
Etymology
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”). Cognate with West Frisian plak (“place, location, spot”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”), Low German Plakk, Plakke (“spot, place, patch”). More at patch.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: pleck, plecke, *plakkju, *plakjō
Usage
- British usage