floss

1. 1.

   a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery

   Broaderthread
2. 2.

   a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth

   Synonymsdental floss

   Broaderthread

1. 1.

   use dental floss to clean

   “floss your teeth after every meal”

   Broadercleanse

Other forms of floss

plural

flosses·

past tense

flossed·

present participle

flossing·

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 floss

What does floss mean?

floss means "a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in floss?

floss has 1 syllable: floss. In IPA it is /ˈflɑs/.

What is another word for floss?

Close synonyms include dental floss. 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 floss a common word?

floss 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.