flank

1. 1.

   be located at the sides of something or somebody

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Other forms of flank

plural

flanks·

past tense

flanked·

present participle

flanking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flank

What does flank mean?

flank means "the side of military or naval formation". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flank?

flank has 1 syllable: flank. In IPA it is /ˈflæŋk/.

What is another word for flank?

Close synonyms include wing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flank a common word?

flank is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with flank?

1 word rhymes with flank. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.