How to Spell wreck
wreck
wreck - noun
- Something cast up on the land by the sea especially after a shipwreck
Source: Merriam-Webster Dictionary API
Etymology
Middle English {it}wrec, wrek,{/it} borrowed from Anglo-French {it}wrek{/it} & Medieval Latin {it}wreccum,{/it} borrowed from Old Norse {it}*wrek, rek,{/it} going back to {it}*wrek-a-{/it} "something driven," derivative of Germanic {it}*wrekan-{/it} "to drive out" {ma}{mat|wreak|}{/ma}
From Old Norse 'rek' meaning 'drift'
Word family
wrecked, wrecking, wreckage