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flintstone

noun

flintstone is spelled F-L-I-N-T-S-T-O-N-E: 10 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, flintstone means “A piece of flint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of flintstone is flintstones.

How many letters and syllables are in flintstone?

Letters10: F-L-I-N-T-S-T-O-N-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is flintstone?

Flintstone appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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).

How do you pronounce flintstone?

Flintstone has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flintstone.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of flintstone

  • flintstones plural

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

What does flintstone mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A piece of flint.

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

Where does flintstone come from?

From Middle English flynt ston; equivalent to flint + stone.

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

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