เหล็ก
“เหล็ก” (лэк) — iron; metal (everyday) in Thai. Noun, level A1. In everyday life Thai names all things iron this way: a fence, bars, nails. Metal in general is loha from this lesson; iron is its household part. In a live sentence: “ประ ตู ทำ จาก เหล็ก” — The door is made of iron. Written with the characters เ, ห, ล, ก. A word from the everyday Thai course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Thai | เหล็ก |
| Read in Latin letters | лэк |
| Translation | iron; metal (everyday) |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
In everyday life Thai names all things iron this way: a fence, bars, nails. Metal in general is loha from this lesson; iron is its household part
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- ประ ตู ทำ จาก เหล็กпра туу тхам джак лэкThe door is made of iron
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “iron; metal (everyday)” in Thai?
«เหล็ก», read “лэк”. In a live sentence: “ประ ตู ทำ จาก เหล็ก” — The door is made of iron. Noun, level A1; written with the characters เ, ห, ล, ก.
How is “เหล็ก” written in Latin letters?
лэк. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
In everyday life Thai names all things iron this way: a fence, bars, nails. Metal in general is loha from this lesson; iron is its household part. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.