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flosser

noun

flosser is a noun meaning “One who flosses the teeth” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-S-S-E-R, and it appears about once in every 42 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flosser is flossers.

What does flosser mean?

noun

  1. 1

    One who flosses the teeth.

  2. 2

    A tool used for flossing the teeth, consisting of a disposable pick with floss stretched across it.

  3. 3

    An angler who uses a weighted hook that pierces the fish's mouth from the outside.

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

How do you pronounce flosser?

  • US

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

Forms of flosser

  • flossers plural

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

How common is flosser?

Flosser appears about once in every 42 million words in written English, the 199,120th 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 flosser come from?

From floss + -er.

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