Word.ws English Dictionary

steck

/stɛk/

steck noun: a piece or an item.

Noun

steck (plural stecks)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland, obsolete) A piece or an item.
    • a steck o' bread
    • Two stecks of double Demy-ostage to hang about the choir.1537, Accounts of the Treasurer of Scotland

Proper noun capitalized: Steck

Steck

  1. A surname.

Synonyms of steck

13 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Forms of steck

pluralstecks
alternative formstek
alternative formsteik
alternative formstike
alternative formsteek
alternative formsteak
alternative formsteyk
alternative formstyk
alternative formstaig

Origin of steck

From Middle English stic, from Middle Dutch stucke, sticke, from Old Dutch *stukki, *stikki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with Danish stykke (“piece”), Dutch stuk (“piece”), Faroese stykki (“piece”), German Stück (“piece”), Icelandic stykki (“piece”), Norwegian stykke (“piece”), Swedish stycke (“piece”). Doublet of shtick and shtuka. See also stock.

Words that rhyme with steck

44 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about steck

What does steck mean?
Steck means a piece or an item.
What part of speech is steck?
Steck can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce steck?
Steck is pronounced /stɛk/.
What is the plural of steck?
The plural of steck is stecks.

Words near steck in the dictionary

  1. Steches
  2. Stechford
  3. stechiometric
  4. Stechschulte
  5. Stechschultes
  6. steck
  7. Steckel
  8. Steckels
  9. steckered
  10. Stecklein
  11. Steckleins

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: steck (page history and authors); Steck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “steck.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/steck. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.