pale
Light in color.
Adjective 3 meanings
Light in color.
“I have pale yellow wallpaper.”
Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
“His face turned pale after hearing about his mother's death.”
Feeble, faint.
“He is but a pale shadow of his former self.”
Verb 4 meanings
To turn pale; to lose colour.
To become insignificant.
To make pale; to diminish the brightness of.
To enclose with pales, or as if with pales; to encircle or encompass; to fence off.
Noun 4 meanings
A wooden stake; a picket.
Limits, bounds (especially before of).
A vertical band down the middle of a shield.
A cheese scoop.
Etymology
From Middle English pale, from Old French pale, from Latin pallidus (“pale, pallid”), from palleō (“to be pale; to grow pale; to fade”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelito-, from *pelH- (“gray”). Doublet of pallid. Displaced native Old English blāc.
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PALE at a glance
PALE has 4 letters and scores 6 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + L 1 + E 1) and 8 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,175 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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