flatware

Other forms of flatware

plural

flatwares·

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 flatware

What does flatware mean?

flatware means "tableware that is relatively flat and fashioned as a single piece". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in flatware?

flatware has 2 syllables: flat-ware. The stress falls on "flat". In IPA it is /ˈflæˌtwɛɹ/.

What is another word for flatware?

Close synonyms include silver. 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 flatware a common word?

flatware is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 flatware?

3 words rhyme with flatware. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.