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Etymology

From Middle English Category:English terms inherited from Middle English#FRECKLE Category:English terms derived from Middle English#FRECKLE freken, frekel, from Old Norse Category:English terms derived from Old Norse#FRECKLE freknur pl (compare Faroese frøknur, Swedish fräknar, Danish fregner), s-less variant of Old English sprecel from Proto-Germanic Category:English terms derived from Proto-Germanic#FRECKLE *sprekalą (“freckle”) (compare dialectal Norwegian sprekla, Middle High German spreckel), from Proto-Indo-European Category:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#FRECKLE *sp(h)er(e)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). Cognate with Albanian fruth (“measles”). More at spark. Related to spry, sprack.

Pronunciation

Noun

freckle (plural freckles)Category:English lemmas#FRECKLE Category:English nouns#FRECKLE Category:English countable nouns#FRECKLE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FRECKLE Category:Pages with entries#FRECKLE Category:Pages with 1 entry#FRECKLE

A small brownish or reddish pigmentation spot on the surface of the skin.
Steve has brown hair, blue eyes, and freckles on his cheeks and nose.
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- c. 1920s-1930s, Charlotte Druitt Cole, Runaway Jane:
  The rabbits came out from their burrows to peep, / The wind whispered, "Hush! little Jane's gone to sleep!" / And the spiders came spinning a curtain of lace, / Lest the sun should make freckles on Jane's pretty face.
- 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 171:
  Nurse Cramer had a cute nose and a radiant, blooming complexion dotted with fetching sprays of adorable freckles that Yossarian detested.
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Any small spot or discoloration.
(Australia Category:Australian English#FRECKLE) A small sweet consisting of a flattish mound of chocolate covered in hundreds and thousands.
(Australia Category:Australian English#FRECKLE, slang Category:English slang#FRECKLE) The anus.

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Translations

small pigmentation spot on the skin

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Afrikaans: sproetCategory:Terms with Afrikaans translations#FRECKLE
Arabic: نَمَش m pl (namaš)Category:Terms with Arabic translations#FRECKLE
Egyptian Arabic: نمش m pl (namaš)Category:Terms with Egyptian Arabic translations#FRECKLE

Tunisian Arabic: نمش (nmæċ)Category:Terms with Tunisian Arabic translations#FRECKLE
Armenian: պեպեն (hy) (pepen)Category:Terms with Armenian translations#FRECKLE
Azerbaijani: çil (az)Category:Terms with Azerbaijani translations#FRECKLE
Bashkir: һипкел (hipkel)Category:Terms with Bashkir translations#FRECKLE
Basque: orinCategory:Terms with Basque translations#FRECKLE
Belarusian: вясну́шка f (vjasnúška)Category:Terms with Belarusian translations#FRECKLE
Bulgarian: луничка f (lunička)Category:Terms with Bulgarian translations#FRECKLE
Carpathian Rusyn: пі́стріґ m (pístrig)Category:Terms with Carpathian Rusyn translations#FRECKLE
Catalan: piga (ca) fCategory:Terms with Catalan translations#FRECKLE
Chinese:
Mandarin: 雀斑 (zh) (quèbān)Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#FRECKLE, 斑點 / 斑点 (zh) (bāndiǎn)Category:Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations#FRECKLE Category:Terms with Mandarin translations#FRECKLE
Coptic: ⲁⲣϣⲁⲛ m (aršan)Category:Coptic terms with redundant transliterations#FRECKLE Category:Terms with Coptic translations#FRECKLE
Crimean Tatar: sepkilCategory:Terms with Crimean Tatar translations#FRECKLE
Czech: piha (cs) fCategory:Terms with Czech translations#FRECKLE
Danish: fregne (da) cCategory:Terms with Danish translations#FRECKLE
Dutch: sproet (nl) cCategory:Terms with Dutch translations#FRECKLE
Esperanto: lentugoCategory:Terms with Esperanto translations#FRECKLE
Estonian: tedretähnCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#FRECKLE, tedretähtCategory:Terms with Estonian translations#FRECKLE
Faroese: frøkna fCategory:Terms with Faroese translations#FRECKLE
Finnish: kesakko (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE, pisama (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE, teerenpilkku (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE
French: tache de rousseur (fr) fCategory:Terms with French translations#FRECKLE
Gagauz: çilCategory:Terms with Gagauz translations#FRECKLE
Galician: lentixa (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FRECKLE, lantinxa fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FRECKLE, marxa (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FRECKLE, penca (gl) fCategory:Terms with Galician translations#FRECKLE
Georgian: ჭორფლი (č̣orpli)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#FRECKLE
German: Sommersprosse (de) fCategory:Terms with German translations#FRECKLE
Greek: φακίδα (el) f (fakída)Category:Terms with Greek translations#FRECKLE
Ancient Greek: ἔφηλις f (éphēlis)Category:Terms with Ancient Greek translations#FRECKLE
Hebrew: נמש (he) m (nemesh)Category:Terms with Hebrew translations#FRECKLE
Hungarian: szeplő (hu)Category:Terms with Hungarian translations#FRECKLE
Icelandic: frekna fCategory:Terms with Icelandic translations#FRECKLE
Ido: lentigino (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#FRECKLE
Indonesian: bintik (id)Category:Terms with Indonesian translations#FRECKLE
Ingrian: pääsönpisamaCategory:Terms with Ingrian translations#FRECKLE
Ingush: тӏаьд (tʼäd)Category:Terms with Ingush translations#FRECKLE
Irish: breicne fCategory:Terms with Irish translations#FRECKLE
Italian: lentiggine (it)Category:Terms with Italian translations#FRECKLE, efelide (it) fCategory:Terms with Italian translations#FRECKLE
Japanese: 雀斑 (ja) (そばかす, sobakasu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#FRECKLE, そばかす (ja) (sobakasu)Category:Terms with Japanese translations#FRECKLE
Kalmyk: севг (sevg)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#FRECKLE, заарг (zaarg)Category:Terms with Kalmyk translations#FRECKLE
Kazakh: секпіл (sekpıl)Category:Terms with Kazakh translations#FRECKLE
Khmer: អាចម៍រុយ (ʼac ruy)Category:Terms with Khmer translations#FRECKLE
Korean: 주근깨 (ko) (jugeunkkae)Category:Terms with Korean translations#FRECKLE
Kyrgyz: сепкил (ky) (sepkil)Category:Terms with Kyrgyz translations#FRECKLE
Latin: lentigo fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#FRECKLE, lenticula fCategory:Terms with Latin translations#FRECKLE
Latvian: vasaras raibums mCategory:Terms with Latvian translations#FRECKLE
Lithuanian: strazdana fCategory:Terms with Lithuanian translations#FRECKLE
Luxembourgish: SpeechelenCategory:Terms with Luxembourgish translations#FRECKLE
Macedonian: лу́ничка f (lúnička)Category:Terms with Macedonian translations#FRECKLE
Manchu: ᠮᡝᡵᠰᡝᠨ (mersen)Category:Manchu terms with redundant transliterations#FRECKLE Category:Terms with Manchu translations#FRECKLE
Mongolian: сэвх (mn) (sevx)Category:Terms with Mongolian translations#FRECKLE
Nogai: сепкил (sepkil)Category:Terms with Nogai translations#FRECKLE
Norman: tav'lîn mCategory:Terms with Norman translations#FRECKLE (Jersey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fregne (no) m or fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations#FRECKLE

Nynorsk: frekne fCategory:Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations#FRECKLE
Occitan: tessèla (oc) fCategory:Terms with Occitan translations#FRECKLE
Persian: کک و مک (kak-o-mak)Category:Terms with Persian translations#FRECKLE
Polish: pieg (pl) mCategory:Terms with Polish translations#FRECKLE
Portuguese: sarda (pt)Category:Terms with Portuguese translations#FRECKLE
Romanian: pistrui (ro) mCategory:Terms with Romanian translations#FRECKLE
Russian: весну́шка (ru) f (vesnúška)Category:Terms with Russian translations#FRECKLE
Scottish Gaelic: breac-sheunainCategory:Terms with Scottish Gaelic translations#FRECKLE
Serbo-Croatian: пегаCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FRECKLE, пјегаCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FRECKLE
Latin: pega (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FRECKLE, pjega (sh) fCategory:Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations#FRECKLE
Slovak: peha fCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FRECKLE
Slovene: pega (sl) fCategory:Terms with Slovene translations#FRECKLE
Southern Altai: сепкил (sepkil)Category:Terms with Southern Altai translations#FRECKLE
Spanish: peca (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FRECKLE, efélide (es) fCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FRECKLE, lentigo mCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FRECKLE
Swedish: fräkne (sv) cCategory:Terms with Swedish translations#FRECKLE
Tagalog: pekasCategory:Terms with Tagalog translations#FRECKLE
Tatar: сипкел (tt) (sipkel)Category:Terms with Tatar translations#FRECKLE
Thai: กระ (th) (grà)Category:Terms with Thai translations#FRECKLE
Tibetan: གྲོ་ཐིག (gro thig)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#FRECKLE, སྨེ་ཐིག (sme thig)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#FRECKLE
Turkish: çil (tr)Category:Terms with Turkish translations#FRECKLE
Ottoman Turkish: چل (çyl)Category:Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations#FRECKLE
Turkmen: sepgilCategory:Terms with Turkmen translations#FRECKLE
Tuvan: секпил (sekpil)Category:Terms with Tuvan translations#FRECKLE
Ukrainian: весня́нка f (vesnjánka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#FRECKLE, ластови́нка f (lastovýnka)Category:Terms with Ukrainian translations#FRECKLE
Uzbek: sepkil (uz)Category:Terms with Uzbek translations#FRECKLE
Vietnamese: tàn nhang (vi)Category:Terms with Vietnamese translations#FRECKLE
Volapük: feelid (vo)Category:Terms with Volapük translations#FRECKLE
Welsh: brych (cy) mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#FRECKLE, sbot haf mCategory:Terms with Welsh translations#FRECKLE
Yakut: эбир (ebir)Category:Terms with Yakut translations#FRECKLE

any small spot

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Verb

freckle (third-person singular simple present freckles, present participle freckling, simple past and past participle freckled)Category:English lemmas#FRECKLE Category:English verbs#FRECKLE Category:English entries with incorrect language header#FRECKLE Category:Pages with entries#FRECKLE Category:Pages with 1 entry#FRECKLE

(transitive Category:English transitive verbs#FRECKLE) To cover with freckles.
(intransitive Category:English intransitive verbs#FRECKLE) To become covered with freckles.

Derived terms

freckle up

Related terms

Translations

cover with freckles

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Chinese:
Mandarin: (no such verb exists) 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān), 長雀斑, 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān)
Finnish: pisamoittaaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE (skin); täplittää (fi)Category:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE (anything else)
Ido: lentiginigar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#FRECKLE
Portuguese: cobrir de sardasCategory:Terms with Portuguese translations#FRECKLE

become covered with freckles

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Chinese:
Mandarin: (no such verb exists) 有雀斑 (yǒu quèbān), 長雀斑, 长雀斑 (zhǎng quèbān)
Finnish: pisamoituaCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE (skin); täplittyäCategory:Terms with Finnish translations#FRECKLE (anything else)
Ido: lentigineskar (io)Category:Terms with Ido translations#FRECKLE
Spanish: tener pecaCategory:Terms with Spanish translations#FRECKLE
Tibetan: གྲོ་ཐིག་ཐོན (gro thig thon)Category:Terms with Tibetan translations#FRECKLE

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

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Georgian: ^{(please verify)} დაჭორფვლა (dač̣orpvla)Category:Terms with Georgian translations#FRECKLE Category:Requests for review of Georgian translations#FRECKLE
Slovak: ^{(please verify)} pehavieťCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FRECKLE Category:Requests for review of Slovak translations#FRECKLE, ^{(please verify)} opehavieťCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FRECKLE Category:Requests for review of Slovak translations#FRECKLE, ^{(please verify)} spehavieťCategory:Terms with Slovak translations#FRECKLE Category:Requests for review of Slovak translations#FRECKLE

Anagrams

flecker

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