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flet

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.07 in modern English

Syllables
flet
IPA
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Floor; bottom; lower surface.

noun

A house; home.

noun

forward line of enemy troops, front line

American usage

Etymology

From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: flet, *flati, *flatją, *pleth₂-

Usage

Inflected Forms

flets (plural) fleet (alternative, obsolete) flette (alternative, obsolete)

Antonyms

FLOT

Questions

What does flet mean?
Floor; bottom; lower surface.
Where does flet come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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