flats

1. 1.

   footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)

   Broaderfootwear

   plural

Other forms of flats

plural

flatses·

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 flats

What does flats mean?

flats means "footwear (shoes or slippers) with no heel (or a very low heel)".

How many syllables are in flats?

flats has 1 syllable: flats. In IPA it is /ˈflæts/.

Is flats a common word?

flats 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.