Definitions for dappled

dappled dap·pled

Spelling: [dap-uh ld]
IPA: /ˈdæp əld/

Dappled is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in dappled (addelpp).

Definitions for dappled

noun

  1. a spot or mottled marking, usually occurring in clusters.
  2. an animal with a mottled skin or coat.

adjective

  1. having spots of a different shade, tone, or color from the background; mottled.
  2. dappled; spotted:

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to mark or become marked with spots.

Origin of dappled

1350-1400; Middle English, probably Scandinavian; akin to Old Norse depill spot

Examples for dappled

The grass, dappled with sun and shadow, wore a mantle of flowers.

It had dappled their throats and spurted over their garments.

Smither should choose it for her at the stores, nice and dappled.

Enron's Ken Lay conducting television interviews, dappled with references to his being the humble son-of-a-pastor.

The dogs had started a dappled deer that bounded 102 away through the forest.

It was covered in a wrap which had once been white but was now dappled with green.

Gin and white vermouth shaken with salted pomegranate syrup, dappled with rosewater.

Up close the color, added by hand after printing, is soft and dappled, and the paper is slightly raised like a new mosquito bite.

A robin from the dappled warmth of a mossy stone, was regarding them instead.

They were as inconspicuous as two deer in the dappled shadow.

Word Value for dappled
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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