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Flecked vs Frecked - What's the difference?

flecked | frecked |

As verbs the difference between flecked and frecked

is that flecked is (fleck) while frecked is (freck).

flecked

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fleck)

    • fleck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flake
  • A lock, as of wool.
  • A small spot or streak; a speckle.
  • * Longfellow
    • A sunny fleck .
  • * Tennyson
    • Life is dashed with flecks of sin.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mark with small spots
  • *
  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

    • frecked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (freck)

    • freck

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (transitive, rare, poetic) To checker; to diversify.
    • The painted windows, frecking gloom with glow. — Lowell.
    (Webster 1913)