flannel

1. 1.

   a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing

   Broaderfabric
2. 2.

   bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body

   Synonymswashclothwashragface cloth

   Broaderbath linen
3. 3.

   (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

   Synonymsgabardinetweedwhite

   Broadertrousers

   plural

Other forms of flannel

plural

flannels·

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 flannel

What does flannel mean?

flannel means "a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flannel?

flannel has 2 syllables: flan-nel. The stress falls on "flan". In IPA it is /ˈflænəl/.

What is another word for flannel?

Close synonyms include washcloth, washrag, face cloth, gabardine, tweed. 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 flannel a common word?

flannel 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.