flaps
/flæps/noun, verb
flaps is spelled F-L-A-P-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, flaps means “plural of flap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in flaps?
| Letters | 5: F-L-A-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.6 times per million words; the 22,362nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is flaps?
Flaps appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,362nd 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).
How do you pronounce flaps?
- US /flæps/
Flaps has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-flaps.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with flaps?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flaps from its last stressed vowel (/æps/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does flaps mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of flap
- 2
archaicA disease in the mouths of horses involving inflammation in the cheeks or lips.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of flap
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does flaps come from?
From flap + -s.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).