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Fleck vs Fleak - What's the difference?

fleck | fleak |

As an adjective fleck

is fledged, full-fledged.

As a noun fleak is

a flake; a thread or twist.

fleck

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A flake
  • A lock, as of wool.
  • A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • * Longfellow
    • A sunny fleck .
  • * Tennyson
    • Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with small spots
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

    • fleak

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a flake; a thread or twist
  • * 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 61:
    • " that all the businesses of Men do very much depend upon these little long fleaks or threds of Hemp'' and ''Flax ."