spreckled
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
verb
simple past and past participle of spreckle
Example Sentences
- "The black eagle : blackish ; the head and upper neck mixed with red ; the tail feathers, the first half white, spreckled with black, the other half blackish ; the leg feathers dirty white."
- "c.1882-1898, Francis James Child, Child's Collected Ballads, "What like were the fish, King Henry, my son? What like were the fish, my pretty little one?" "They were spreckled on the back and white on the belly; mother, make my bed soon, For I'm sick to the heart, and I fain wald lie down.""
- "Many are the cubs, and many are the spreckled fawns that I have reared with these old hands […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more spreckled (comparative)
most spreckled (superlative)
Frequently Paired Words
sprengled