speck

About 1.04 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A tiny spot or particle, especially of dirt.

   a tiny speck of soot

2. noun A very small amount; a particle; a whit.

   He has not a speck of money.

3. noun A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
4. verb To mark with specks; to speckle.

   paper specked by impurities in the water used in its manufacture

5. noun Fat; lard; fat meat.
6. noun A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
7. noun The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
8. noun The fat of the hippopotamus.

Similar words

pinpoint pinch touch mote particle jot soupcon molecule atom hint

Often followed by

of in on and that or upon was is

Word family

specked specking specks