flatcar
noun
flatcar is a noun meaning “A railroad freight car without sides and roof” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-C-A-R, and it appears about once in every 22 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flatcar is flatcars.
What does flatcar mean?
noun
- 1
USA railroad freight car without sides and roof.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flatcar
- flatcars plural
- flat car
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatcar?
Flatcar appears about once in every 22 million words in written English, the 143,405th 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).
Flatcar in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense railroad freight car without sides and roof:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | wagon plat |
| German | Flachwagen, Plattformwagen |
| Spanish | vagón plataforma |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flatcar come from?
From flat + car.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).