mottle

mottle is a 6-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
2. noun. A mottled appearance.
3. noun. an irregular arrangement of patches of color

   "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green"

4. verb. colour with streaks or blotches of different shades

   Synonyms: cloud, dapple

5. verb. mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained

   Synonyms: blotch, streak

Synonyms

cloud, dapple, blotch, streak

Common word forms

mottled, mottler, mottles, mottling, mottlement

Words from these letters

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