freckle
Syllables: freck·le/ˈfɹɛkl̩/US/ˈfɹɛk(ə)l/
freckle noun: a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
Noun
freckle (plural freckles)
- A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.
- The rabbits came out from their burrows to peep, / The wind whispered, "Hush! little Jane's gone to sleep!" / And the spiders came spinning a curtain of lace, / Lest the sun should make freckles on Jane's pretty face.c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane
- Any small spot which has a different colour from its background.
- A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
- The anus.
Verb
freckle (third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)
freckle meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Kannada and Sanskrit
freckle in Tamil
- உடற்புள்ளி, மரு, வடு, மச்சம், தேமல்
freckle in Urdu
- چتی, دھبہ ڈالنا
freckle in Kannada
- ಮತ್ತಿ
freckle in Sanskrit
- a freckle
- तिलक tilaka
More languagesFewer languages
- freckle in Tagalog
- pekas
- freckle in Arabic
- نَمَش namaš
- freckle in Indonesian
- bintik
- freckle in Persian
- کک و مک kak-o-mak
- freckle in Thai
- กระ grà
- freckle in Vietnamese
- tàn nhang
Examples of freckle in a sentence
- Having red hair and freckles is a characteristic that is peculiarly Northern European.
- Whatever you love about your freckles, they make you unique and beautiful.
- He has pale hair and freckles, the Ron Weasley of local policing.
Synonyms of freckle
Forms of freckle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | freckles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | freckles |
| present participle | freckling |
| past participle | freckled |
| past | freckled |
Origin of freckle
The noun is derived from Late Middle English fracle, frekel, frekle (“freckle; pimple; fleck of colour in a stone”), a variant of frakne, freken (“freckle; other skin blemish”) (whence frecken (“(obsolete except UK, dialectal) freckle”)), from Old Norse freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Danish fregner, Swedish fräknar), an s-less variant of Proto-Germanic *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare Middle High German spreckel, dialectal Norwegian sprekla), from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(e)g-, *(s)pregʰ- (“to sprinkle, strew”). Doublet of spark, sprack, and spry. The verb is derived from the noun. cognates * Albanian fruth (“measles”) * Old English sprecel
Words formed from freckle
Words that rhyme with freckle
Questions about freckle
- What does freckle mean?
- Freckle means a small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
- What is freckle in Tamil?
- Freckle in Tamil is உடற்புள்ளி, மரு, வடு. See Freckle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is freckle?
- Freckle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce freckle?
- Freckle is pronounced /ˈfɹɛkl̩/ (UK).
- What is the plural of freckle?
- The plural of freckle is freckles.
Words near freckle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: freckle (page history and authors); freckle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); freckle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); freckle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तिलक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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