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From researching about the word 水気 in Jisho, I found that it has two different
readings: すいき and みずけ. Unfortunately, the information on the site did not
really help me in differentiating on what the proper reading was. The only
noticeable difference that I could observe was that すいき has a greater variety
of possible meanings than みずけ.

With this in mind, I would just like to know what exactly are the other
differences between the two? Also, what is the more common reading, and what
are the scenarios wherein one reading is preferred over the other?
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meaning readings
What is the correct reading of 水気?
In modern casual exchanges, 水気 is almost always read みずけ, and I would say you
can practically forget すいき. みずけ is a fairly common word, but people probably
don't understand you if you said すいき in conversations.

That being said, すいき was not rare at least in old novels. According to ふりがな文庫
(a corpus based on furigana in public-domain old novels), both [すいき and みずけ
were actively used](https://furigana.info/w/%E6%B0%B4%E6%B0%97). They seem
mostly interchangeable to me, but すいき sometimes also meant "humid/fog-like
air" rather than "humidity", in which case すいき is not interchangeable with
みずけ. There should be some modern novelists who actively use すいき, but I would
say there is no good reason to use すいき unless you're writing some stiff
literary works.
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