Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

palen

/pˈælən/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.56 in modern English

Syllables: palen
IPA: /pˈælən/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To make or become pale.

name

Example Sentences

"[…] the brown portion gradually palened towards the postero-interior margin, with an inconspicuous paler median streak."
"Marion dumped Alice in the wheelbarrow with slices of honeybread between dock leaves on her lap, and wheeled it down the garden, past the beans, darkening as they ripened, past the peas, palening as they ripened, past the neat rows of onions and cabbages."

Etymology

From pale + -en.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: pale

Inflected Forms

palens (present, singular) palening (participle, present) palened (participle, past) palened (past) Palens (plural)

Rhymes With

alan allen allan gallon fallon talon ballon callan callen mallon o'fallon tallon

Questions

How do you pronounce palen?: The recorded pronunciation is /pˈælən/.
What does palen mean?: To make or become pale.
Where does palen come from?: From pale + -en.

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