palette

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palette

  • /ˈpælɪt/ UK
  • /ˈpælɪt/ US
  • /ˈpælət/ US
  • /pəˈlɛt/ US, nonstandard
  • /ˈpælət/ Australia

Sounds like palate, pallet, pallette · Rhymes with -ælɪt

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French palette. Doublet of pallet.

noun palettes

  1. A thin board on which a painter lays and mixes colours.
  2. A set of colours available to be used (or mixed). Use your mouse to select the colour you want to use from the circular colour palette.
  3. The range of colors in a given work or item or body of work. The unified colour palette of reds, blues, and yellows used throughout the signage matches that of the institution’s logo and letterhead.
  4. The range of tones or tone colors in a given musical composition or performance.
  5. A set of makeup including a variety of colors, often packaged together in a tray. She removed an eyeshadow palette from her bag.
  6. A visual selection of colours, tools, commands, etc. It would be extremely beneficial to have the right subassemblies with the parameters already set available on your tool palette.
  7. historical A plate of armour covering the points of junction at the bend of the shoulders and elbows.
  8. A plate against which a person presses their chest to give force to a hand-operated drill.
  9. figuratively, uncommon Any set or group of limited choices, options, or tasks from all ones that are currently available. For the San Francisco project, he whittled down the palette to a handful of key surfaces, chief among them French limestone, hard oak, and Danish brick—long, slender, stunning.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: pallette, pallet, range, shoulder, blade, array, panoply, sweep, mix, skid, repertoire, variety, plate, spectrum, spectre, gamma

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noun board

Españolpaleta
한국어팔레트 palleteu
日本語パレット paretto
中文調色板 /调色板 tiáosèbǎn
Portuguêspaleta
Françaispalette
DeutschFarbpalette, Palette
Italianotavolozza
Ελληνικάπαλέτα paléta
Русскийпали́тра palítra
עבריתפתכה ptekhá

noun range of colors

Españolgama de colores, paleta
中文調色盤 /调色盘 tiáosèpán, 顏色板 /颜色板
Portuguêspaleta
Françaispalette
Русскийпали́тра palítra

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@misc{palette_2026,
  title = {palette},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/palette},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}