Meaning & use
freckled face
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Meaning
nouncountable
A face that has many small light brown spots on the skin.
Grammar: Countable: you can say 'a freckled face' or 'freckled faces'.
Patterns
- a freckled face
- with a freckled face
The little girl had a freckled face and bright red hair.
He looked at his freckled face in the mirror after the summer holiday.
Two freckled faces appeared at the window.
Word forms
| plural | freckled faces |
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Common combinations
- a pale freckled face
- She has a pale freckled face that burns easily in the sun.
- a round freckled face
- The boy's round freckled face broke into a grin.
- a freckled face and red hair
- People often picture a freckled face and red hair together.
Synonyms and how they differ
- spotty face
- This usually means a face with pimples or blemishes, not the harmless brown spots of freckles.
Word family
Commonly confused: freckled face or freckle-faced?
freckled face vs freckle-faced
This is a common hyphenated variant meaning the same thing; both are correct, but 'freckled face' is a noun phrase while 'freckle-faced' works as an adjective before a noun.
Practice
Which sentence uses the phrase correctly?
Choose one answer.
'A freckled face' needs the article 'a' before the adjective and noun. Option 2 adds an unnecessary phrase, option 3 drops the article, and option 4 puts the adjective in the wrong position.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “freckled face”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.