treat seeked as a valid word

[kemingy]

Please complete the following tasks

• I have searched the open and rejected issues

Valid word

seeked

Incorrect correction

sought

Justification

As mentioned in #1231, seeked is not a grammatically correct form, but it's widely used in programming-related files.

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/seeked_event
• "Seeked" is not a word whatwg/html#3583
• https://ian.hixie.ch/bible/english

"to seek" -- (1) to search for something. Past tense "sought". (2) To
index into a resource, as in jumping to a time in a video file or a
record in a data stream. Past tense "seeked".

cc @dmtrKovalenko

Notes

No response

[epage]

Going through my normal checks:

google ngram

google trends

Meriam webster doesn't recognize seeked

OED's search lists it as variant of seek but all the details for seek to get more context seem to be behind a paywall.

varcon doesn't seem to acknowledge seek as a local variant.

[epage]

For most contexts, seeked does not seem valid enough to be allowed. However, seeked event does give reason to reconsider.

Similarly, seek is a common function name (Rust, Python) and it can be natural to do seek()ed and maybe turn that into "seeked", kind of like hardlinked and alloced
https://github.com/crate-ci/typos/blob/master/crates/typos-dict/assets/allowed.csv

I'm not sure enough to make an immediate determination on this though.

[kemingy]

I also searched on GitHub:

• seeked: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=seeked about 240k matches
• sought: https://github.com/search?type=code&q=sought about 2M matches

[dmtrKovalenko]

I think this is generally a dilemma of the contest specific correction. As a form of the past tense of the word “seek” the “seeked” would be grammatically wrong, but as a past tense of the seek meaning specifically to seek a time in a player ui — totally okay because the seek in this context has its own kind of meaning.

[szepeviktor]

I keep a small dictionary in my default typos config file.

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