blake
/bleɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.16 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "White shows the rye, the big of big of blaker hue,[…]"
- "[…] the E. blake (identical with AS. blac, G. bleich, pale) is provincially used in the sense of yellow. As blake as a paigle, as yellow as a cowslip."
- "Miss Lizzie's ower dark for my fancy. I mind nowt aboot your dark lasses - as blake as marygowds an' as black as corbies."
- "Noo, that's a bit o' neyce blake butter. Thoo nobbut leeaks blakeish."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *blaikaz Proto-West Germanic *blaik Old English blāc Middle English blake English blake From Middle English blak, blac (“pale”), from Old English blāc (“pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale; yellow, pink; any non-red warm color”); both from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale; shining”). Compare Scots bleg (“light, drab”). More at bleak.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Usage
- British usage
- Countable
- Uncountable
Inflected Forms
blaker (comparative)
more blake (comparative)
blakest (superlative)
most blake (superlative)
Blakes (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Blake Basin
Blake Island
Blake River
Blake Village