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flowrate

/ˈfloʊ.ɹeɪt/noun

flowrate is a noun meaning “The rate of flow, usually of a fluid, measured in either volume or mass per unit time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-O-W-R-A-T-E and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flowrate is flowrates.

What does flowrate mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The rate of flow, usually of a fluid, measured in either volume or mass per unit time.

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

How do you pronounce flowrate?

  • US /ˈfloʊ.ɹeɪt/

Flowrate has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

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

Forms of flowrate

  • flowrates plural
  • flow rate

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

How common is flowrate?

Flowrate appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th 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 flowrate come from?

From flow + rate.

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