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flattener

noun

flattener is a noun meaning “Anything that flattens” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-T-E-N-E-R, and it appears about once in every 69 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flattener is flatteners.

What does flattener mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Anything that flattens.

  2. 2

    A trade whose terms are based on the assumption that the rate of return will decrease.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flattener

  • flatteners plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flattener?

Flattener appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd 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 flattener come from?

From flatten + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).