Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seek for

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

Syllables: seek -for
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To try to find or attain; to seek.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"Any one who doubts the quality of the sport found by those fishermen who seek for their Sunday victims in the North River should have strolled along its bank yesterday above One Hundredth-street."
"I had been out all day trudging from one newspaper office to another, seeking for work and finding none."
"From the beginning, competing impulses powered “Unsolved Mysteries”: a crusading compulsion to seek for justice and a market-driven need to entertain."

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

seeks for (present, singular) seeking for (participle, present) sought for (participle, past) sought for (past)

Questions

What does seek for mean?: To try to find or attain; to seek.

How to pronounce seek for

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