flayer
flay·er/ˈfleɪ.ɚ/noun
flayer is a noun meaning “One who or that which flays” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-A-Y-E-R and has 2 syllables (flay·er), and it appears about once in every 35 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flayer is flayers.
What does flayer mean?
noun
- 1
One who or that which flays.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flayer?
- US /ˈfleɪ.ɚ/
- UK /ˈfleɪ.ə/
Flayer has 2 syllables, split flay·er in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flayer
- flayers plural
- fleaer
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flayer?
Flayer appears about once in every 35 million words in written English, the 182,517th 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).
Flayer in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense one who flays – see also knacker:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | écorcheur |
| German | Schinder |
| Spanish | desollador |
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 flayer come from?
From flay + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).