flowback
noun
flowback is a noun meaning “The flowing backward of a fluid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-B-A-C-K, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowback is flowbacks.
What does flowback mean?
noun
- 1
The flowing backward of a fluid.
- 2
Any change back to a former place or situation by gradual movement.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flowback
- flowbacks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flowback?
Flowback appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th 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 flowback come from?
Deverbal from flow back.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).