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floor

/floɹ/noun, verb

floor is spelled F-L-O-O-R: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, floor means “The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of floor is floors.

How many letters and syllables are in floor?

Letters5: F-L-O-O-R
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing87 times per million words; the 1,223rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is floor?

Floor appears 87 times per million words in written English, the 1,223rd 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 floor?

  • UK /flɔː/
  • US /floɹ/
  • Australia /floː/

Floor has one syllable (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: En-uk-floor.ogg, En-us-floor.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with floor

Sounds like: flaw (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with floor?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as floor from its last stressed vowel (/oɹ/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of floor

  • floors plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • flooring participle, present
  • floored participle, past

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

What does floor mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The interior bottom or surface of a house or building; the supporting surface of a room.

    The room has a wooden floor.

  2. 2

    The bottom surface of a natural structure, entity, or space (e.g. cave, forest, ocean, desert, etc.); the ground (surface of the Earth).

    The leaves covering the forest floor provide many hiding-places for small animals.

  3. 3

    UKcolloquialThe ground.

    After stepping off the bus, my wallet fell on the floor.

  4. 4

    A structure formed of beams, girders, etc, with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into storeys/stories.

  5. 5

    The supporting surface or platform of a structure such as a bridge.

    Wooden planks of the old bridge's floor were nearly rotten.

  6. 6

    A storey/story of a building.

    For years we lived on the third floor.

  7. 7

    In a parliament, the part of the house assigned to the members, as opposed to the viewing gallery.

  8. 8

    The right to speak at a given time during a debate or other public event.

    Will the senator from Arizona yield the floor?

verb

  1. 1

    To cover or furnish with a floor.

    floor a house with pine boards

  2. 2

    To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down.

  3. 3

    datedinformalTo hang (a picture on exhibition) near the base of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen.

  4. 4

    slangTo push (a pedal) down to the floor, especially to accelerate.

    our driver floored the pedal

  5. 5

    informalTo silence by a conclusive answer or retort.

    floor an opponent

  6. 6

    informalTo amaze or greatly surprise.

    We were floored by his confession.

  7. 7

    colloquialTo finish or make an end of.

    floor a college examination

  8. 8

    To set a lower bound.

    floored division

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

How do you abbreviate floor?

Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of floor: FX, fl., flr.

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

Floor in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsol, plancher (bottom part of a room), fond, face inférieure (lower inside surface of a hollow space), étage (horizontal structure dividing a building), parole (right to speak)
GermanBoden, Bodenbelag, Fußboden, Fußbodenbelag (bottom part of a room), Land, Erdboden (surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or…)
Portuguesepiso, assoalho, chão (bottom part of a room), andar (horizontal structure dividing a building), assoalhar (cover with a floor), derrubar (strike down)
Spanishpiso, suelo (bottom part of a room), palabra (right to speak), planta (part of the house assigned to the members of a…)

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 floor come from?

Inherited from Middle English floor, floour, flor, flore, flour, flur, vlor, from Old English flōr (“floor, pavement; deck; gangplank”), from Proto-West Germanic *flōr, from Proto-Germanic *flōraz (“ground; floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂ros (“floor”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).

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

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