SPECK
What does "SPECK" mean?
A tiny spot, mark, or particle.
Meanings
- A very small spot, stain, or particle. A speck of dust drifted across the projector beam.
- A very small or insignificant amount or thing. From orbit, the whole city was a speck of light. figurative
- To mark with small spots. Rain began to speck the dry pavement.
Did you know?
- When Voyager 1 photographed Earth from beyond Neptune in 1990, our entire planet showed up as a speck less than a single pixel wide, the image Carl Sagan immortalized as the 'pale blue dot'.
Word origin
From Old English 'specca', a small spot or mark; unrelated to the German 'Speck' (bacon fat), which is a separate word that happens to share the spelling.
Remember it
SPECK rhymes with 'fleck' and 'speck of dust'; the short, clipped sound matches the tiny thing it names.
A little poem
One speck on the lens-
the whole bright field of stars
blurred by something near.
haiku
Wordplay
- Astronomers found a speck on the photograph and argued for a week over whether it was a galaxy or a smudge on the glass.
What it teaches
Scale is a borrowed thing; the same speck is a smudge up close and a whole world from far enough away.
Quick facts
What does SPECK mean?
A tiny spot, mark, or particle.
Is SPECK a valid word?
Yes — SPECK is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is SPECK?
SPECK has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does SPECK come from?
From Old English 'specca', a small spot or mark; unrelated to the German 'Speck' (bacon fat), which is a separate word that happens to share the spelling.
What can SPECK teach us?
Scale is a borrowed thing; the same speck is a smudge up close and a whole world from far enough away.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.