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Definition: Fleck |
FleckNoun1. A small fragment of something broken off from the whole; "a bit of rock caught him in the eye". 2. A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice": "a fleck of red". Verb1. Make a spot or mark onto; "The wine spotted the tablecloth". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fleck" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | A small spot, dapple, or mark caused by rays or other anatomical features, local irregularities in the grain, or natural deposits of gummy or mineral matter. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A white to tan necrotic lesion up to a few millimetres in length or diameter, usually confined to the upper surface of leaves. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | To scale or peel off suddenly; applies to shaley beds in the roof or tocoal slab at the face. (references) |
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Synonyms: FleckSynonyms: bit (n), chip (n), dapple (n), flake (n), maculation (n), patch (n), scrap (n), speckle (n), blob (v), blot (v), spot (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Fleck |
| English words defined with "fleck": dapple ♦ Flecker, Flecking ♦ Lucule ♦ maculation ♦ patch ♦ speckle, spot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fleck": Sequivirus. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fleck" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. German (bit, blaze, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, fleck, location, lump, Mark, patch, piece, place, smudge, speck, splash, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, star). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Tatort - Der dunkle Fleck (2002) | |
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| "Fleck" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 62.26% of the time. "Fleck" is used about 53 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 62.26% | 33 | 60,273 |
| Noun (singular) | 33.96% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.77% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 53 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "fleck" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Fleck | Last name | 3,000 | 4,010 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "fleck": fleck of snow ♦ pith fleck ♦ pith ray fleck. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "fleck"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | spërkat me bojë, shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, office, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), pikëloj (speck), larë (clean, discharged), grimë (bit, dash, doit, drachm, dram, drop, hint, hoot, jiff, jiffy, jot, lick, mite, rag, suspicion, tittle, touch, whit), çikël (whit). (various references) | |
Arabic | نقطة (dab, dot, full stop, item, locus, mark, period, point, pt, speck, speckle, spot, topic), نقط (dapple, dot, mottle, pit, point, punctuate, speck, speckle, sprinkle, stipple, trickle), رقطة (speckle), رقط (stipple). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | частица (atom, bit, fraction, molecule, particle, sippet, tittle, vestige, whit), точка (article, entry, full stop, item, period, pip, point, stop), шаря (variegate), луничка (freckle, heat spot, speckle, sunspot), пъстря (variegate), покривам с петънца (flecker), петно (attaint, blob, blot, blotch, dab, daub, defilement, flaw, mottle, note, offset, reflection, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spot, stain, stigma, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references) | |
Czech | skvrna (blob, blot, blotch, blur, carbuncle, macula, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, spatter, speck, splash, spot, stain, taint, tarnish). (various references) | |
Danish | fnug (fly, flyings, shear flock, shearing), plet (blot, spot). (various references) | |
Dutch | vlek (hamlet, township). (various references) | |
Finnish | täplä (speck, spot), laikku (patch, spot). (various references) | |
French | tacheture, tacheter (flecker), tache, moucheture, moucheter, marbrure. (various references) | |
German | fleck (blot, spot, stain, blotch, place). (various references) | |
Greek | Κηλίδωση, στίγμα (stigma). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לכסות בכתמים, גרגיר זעיר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | pötty, szeplő (sunspot), petty (speck, speckle). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cecak (dot, lizard, nip, spot, tweak). (various references) | |
Italian | particella (particle), marezzatura (moire), macchiolina (freckle, speck, speckle), macchietta (caricature, speck), macchia (stain, blotch, macula, spot), lentiggine (freckle). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 斑点 (speck). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | はんてん (half the sky, inversion, mid-air, restaurant, rolling over, short coat, speck, turning around, turning from side to side, type of short coat, workman's livery coat). (various references) | |
Manx | meer (bait, bit, coin, element, extract, fleck of dust, item, number, part, passage, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment), lossag (flare, fleck of light, flicker, Salamander, small flame), breckag (fleck of colour). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eckflay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | salpicar (bedabble, bespatter, dabble, dapple, dash, dredge, flash, flecker, freak, pepper, speckle), pintar (paint), pequena extensão, nódoa (smear), marmoreado (marbling, mottling), manchar (stain, soil), mancha (stain, spot), listrar (freak, lace), espelhado (mirrored). (various references) | |
Romanian | fãrâmã (atom, bit, chip, crumb, element, fragment, morsel, particle, scrap, smithereens, speck, whit), smãlţa (Spangle, speckle), pistrui (freckle, speck, speckle), patã (blemish, blot, blur, breath, dab, flaw, Mark, patch, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, spatter, spill, splash, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish, ulcer), pãrticicã (atom, bit, particle, speck), acoperi cu picãţele, împestriţa (interlard, mottle, speck, speckle). (various references) | |
Russian | крапинка (mottle), пятно (blot, blotch), испещрять крапинка (speckle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pega (freckle, spot), mrlja (attaint, blot, dab, smear, smirch, smudge, splash, splotch, spot, stain, taint). (various references) | |
Spanish | mancha (blot, spot, blotch, macula, stain). (various references) | |
Swedish | stänk (spray, sprinkle). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เกิดจุดด่าง, จุด (dot). (various references) | |
Turkish | tanecik (flake, grain, granule, particle), parçacık (corpuscle, corpuscular, corpuscule, particle, shiver, Spall), nokta (Dot, full point, full stop, macula, particular, period, pinpoint, point, post, speck, speckle, spot, stop, tittle), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, befoul, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), leke (attaint, blemish, blob, blot, blotch, blur, cloud, discoloration, discolouration, Mackle, macula, maculation, mottle, shame, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splodge, splotch, spot, stain, stigma, taint, tarnish), beneklemek (dapple, Dot, flecker, mottle, speck, speckle, spot), benek (Dot, freckle, macula, mottle, speck, speckle, splash, splodge, splotch, spot), çil (freckle, speckle, sun spot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | смалець (grease, lard), цятка (beauty spot, mottle), крупинка (particle), вкривати плямами (maculate), пролітати, пляма (blot, blotch, blur, discoloration, discolouration, macula, maculation, slur, smear, smirch, splash, spot, stain, star, taint). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vết lốm đốm đốm sáng, hạt (county, seed). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fleck": flecked, flecking, flecks, flecky. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fleck": befleck. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fleck": beflecked, beflecking, beflecks. (additional references) | |
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"Fleck" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Alecko, Falck, falick, feck, Felcn, felk, Fellick, feock, filleca, flacky, flec, flece, flech, Fleckalm, flecky, flect, fleec, fleek, flek, flesc, flesk, flicka, flinck, flmech, flocc, fluck, Flyco, Fullick, Lecc. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fleck" (pronounced fle"k) |
| 3 | -l e" k | Lech, lek. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-k-l" | |
-1 letter: clef, feck. | |
-2 letters: cel, elf, elk, kef, lek. | |
-3 letters: ef, el. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-k-l" | |
+1 letter: feckly, fickle, flecks, flecky. | |
+2 letters: befleck, elflock, fetlock, fickler, flacked, flecked, flicked, flicker, flocked, freckle, freckly. | |
+3 letters: beflecks, calflike, cheekful, elflocks, feckless, fetlocks, ficklest, firelock, flackery, flecking, flickers, flickery, flockier, flyspeck, forelock, freckled, freckles, wreckful. | |
+4 letters: backfield, beflecked, blackface, bucketful, cheekfuls, firelocks, flickered, flockiest, flyspecks, forelocks, frecklier, freckling, frolicked, pocketful. | |
+5 letters: backfields, backfilled, beflecking, blackfaces, blackflies, brickfield, bucketfuls, bucketsful, cornflakes, fecklessly, fickleness, fiddleback, flackeries, flickering, flyspecked, footlocker, forelocked, freckliest, pocketfuls, pocketsful, superflack. | |
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