freckle
Plural: freckles
Noun
- a small brownish spot (of the pigment melanin) on the skin
- A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- Any small spot or discoloration.
- A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
- The anus.
Verb
Verb Forms: freckled, freckling, freckles
- To mark or cover with small, brownish spots.
- become freckled
- "I freckle easily"
- mark with freckles
- To cover with freckles.
- To become covered with freckles.
Examples
- Even a perfect triple-word score couldn’t freckle the joy on his opponent’s face.
- Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English freken, frekel, from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.
Scrabble Score: 16
freckle: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordfreckle: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
freckle: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary