speck

1. 1.

   produce specks in or on

   “speck the cloth”

   Broadermark

Other forms of speck

plural

specks·

past tense

specked·

present participle

specking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about speck

What does speck mean?

speck means "a very small spot". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in speck?

speck has 1 syllable: speck. In IPA it is /ˈspɛk/.

What is another word for speck?

Close synonyms include pinpoint, atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is speck a common word?

speck is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with speck?

1 word rhymes with speck. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.