speck

speck is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals; also, the fat of the hippopotamus.
2. noun. A small discolored place in or on anything, or a small place of a color different from that of the main substance; a spot; a stain; a blemish; as, a speck on paper or loth; specks of decay in fruit.
3. noun. A very small thing; a particle; a mite; as, specks of dust; he has not a speck of money.
4. noun. A small etheostomoid fish (Ulocentra stigmaea) common in the Eastern United States.
5. transitive verb. To cause the presence of specks upon or in, especially specks regarded as defects or blemishes; to spot; to speckle; as, paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture.
6. noun. a very small spot

   "the plane was just a speck in the sky"

   Synonyms: pinpoint

7. noun. a slight but appreciable amount

   "this dish could use a touch of garlic"

   Synonyms: hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch

8. noun. (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything

   Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle

9. verb. produce specks in or on

   "speck the cloth"

Synonyms

pinpoint, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, tinge, touch, atom, corpuscle, molecule, mote, particle

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in speck:

pecks

Common word forms

specks, specked, speckly, specking, speckless

Words from these letters

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