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say it: speek
speak is a verb meaning "express in speech". It carries 5 recorded senses.
exchange thoughts; talk with
“We often talk business”
“Actions talk louder than words”
use language
“the baby talks already”
“the prisoner won't speak”
“they speak a strange dialect”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for speak come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.