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freckling

freckling is the present participle and gerund of freckle.

Meaning of freckle

Verb

freckle (third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)

  1. (transitive) To cover (someone; or something, such as the skin) with freckles (noun sense 1 and noun sense 2).
  2. (intransitive) To become covered with freckles.

See all 6 meanings of freckle

Noun

freckling (plural frecklings)

  1. A pattern of freckles

Forms of freckling

pluralfrecklings

Phrases with freckling

Questions about freckling

What does freckling mean?
Freckling means a pattern of freckles.
What is freckling the present participle and gerund of?
Freckling is the present participle and gerund of freckle.
What part of speech is freckling?
Freckling is a noun.
What is the plural of freckling?
The plural of freckling is frecklings.

Words near freckling in the dictionary

  1. frecklesome
  2. Freckleton
  3. Freckletons
  4. frecklier
  5. freckliest
  6. freckling
  7. freckling up
  8. frecklings
  9. Frecklington
  10. frecklish
  11. freckly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: freckling (page history and authors); freckle (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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