flatpack
noun
flatpack is a noun meaning “self-assembly furniture packed flat in a box for transport purposes, before it is assembled” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-P-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flatpack is flatpacks.
What does flatpack mean?
noun
- 1
self-assembly furniture packed flat in a box for transport purposes, before it is assembled.
- 2
A surface-mounted circuit board with leads attached in the plane of the board.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flatpack?
- 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-flatpack.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flatpack
- flatpacks plural
- flat-pack
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatpack?
Flatpack appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st 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 flatpack come from?
From flat + pack.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).