flatwater
adjective, noun
flatwater is an adjective meaning “Of or pertaining to canoe-kayak sprint races in calm water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-T-W-A-T-E-R, and it appears about once in every 48 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does flatwater mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to canoe-kayak sprint races in calm water.
noun
- 1
Water that is calm, without significant currents or rapids.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flatwater
- flatwaters plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flatwater?
Flatwater appears about once in every 48 million words in written English, the 214,628th 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 flatwater come from?
From flat + water.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).