Home › Words › B › blackletblackletblacklet means A speck of soot.EtymologyFrom black + -let.nounA speck of soot.A hoverfly of the genus Cheilosia.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bletch 68% match — To blacken; to dirty or soil. vs blacklet →blatch 66% match — Blacking, blackening. vs blacklet →bleck 66% match — Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease. vs blacklet →sootflake 65% match — A flake of soot. vs blacklet →collow 63% match — To make foul or dirty; begrime as with the smut of coal; blacken. vs blacklet →colly 63% match — Black as coal. vs blacklet →blacking 63% match — A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating. vs blacklet →sootlike 62% match — Resembling soot or some aspect of it. vs blacklet →