flaker
/ˈfleɪkɚ/noun
flaker is a noun meaning “A tool or appliance used to break flakes off a piece of material or something into it” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-K-E-R, and it appears about once in every 68 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flaker is flakers.
What does flaker mean?
noun
- 1
A tool or appliance used to break flakes off a piece of material or something into it.
- 2
slangSomeone who fails to meet commitments, who shows interest but then fails to follow through.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flaker?
- UK /ˈfleɪkə/
- US /ˈfleɪkɚ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flaker.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flaker
- flakers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flaker?
Flaker appears about once in every 68 million words in written English, the 258,950th 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).
Where does flaker come from?
From flake + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).