speckle

speckle is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 18 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A little or spot in or anything, of a different substance or color from that of the thing itself.
2. transitive verb. To mark with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface; to variegate with spots of a different color from the ground or surface.
3. noun. a small contrasting part of something

   "a bald spot"

   "a leopard's spots"

   Synonyms: dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot

4. verb. mark with small spots

   "speckle the wall with tiny yellow spots"

   Synonyms: bespeckle

5. verb. produce a mottled effect

   "The sunlight stippled the trees"

   Synonyms: stipple

Synonyms

dapple, fleck, maculation, patch, spot, bespeckle, stipple

Common word forms

speckled, speckles, speckling

Words from these letters

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