flatlay
noun
flatlay is a noun meaning “A kind of photograph where objects are laid out on a flat surface and photographed perpendicularly from above” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-L-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 78 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flatlay is flatlays.
What does flatlay mean?
noun
- 1
A kind of photograph where objects are laid out on a flat surface and photographed perpendicularly from above.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flatlay
- flatlays plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatlay?
Flatlay appears about once in every 78 million words in written English, the 279,513th 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 flatlay come from?
From flat + lay.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).