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say it: week
weak is an adjective meaning "wanting in physical strength". It carries 12 recorded senses.
(used of vowels or syllables) pronounced with little or no stress
“a syllable that ends in a short vowel is a light syllable”
“a weak stress on the second syllable”
deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc
“a faint outline”
“the wan sun cast faint shadows”
“the faint light of a distant candle”
“weak colors”
“a faint hissing sound”
“a faint aroma”
“a weak pulse”
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 weak 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.