flossing
noun, verb
flossing is a noun meaning “The act of removing food and plaque from one's teeth using dental floss” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-S-S-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flossing is flossings.
What does flossing mean?
noun
- 1
The act of removing food and plaque from one's teeth using dental floss.
The dentist advised regular flossings.
- 2
The use of a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.
- 3
The performance of the floss dance move.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of floss
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flossing?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-flossing.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flossing
- flossings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flossing?
Flossing appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 46,473rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).