Zek is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 7 anagrams from letters in zek (ekz).
How does Hankins know that 'zek'el's livin' creeters means one thing more'n another?
Zechstein, zek′stīn, n. a deposit of calcareous rock which covers the Kupfer-schiefer.
No, my beloved and respected feller-citizen of native birth, it's as plain to me as the wheels of 'zek'el and the year 1843.