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fletton

/ˈflɛtən/noun

fletton is a noun meaning “A clay brick” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-E-T-T-O-N, and it appears about once in every 91 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fletton is flettons.

What does fletton mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A clay brick.

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

How do you pronounce fletton?

  • /ˈflɛtən/

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

Forms of fletton

  • flettons plural

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

How common is fletton?

Fletton appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 fletton come from?

From Fletton, Cambridgeshire, England, where originally manufactured.

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