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— English words —

• flake n. A loose filmy mass or a thin chiplike layer of anything.
• flake n. A scale of a fish or similar animal.
• flake n. (Archaeology) A prehistoric tool chipped out of stone.
• flake n. (Informal) A person who is impractical, flighty, unreliable, or inconsistent; especially with maintaining a living.
• flake n. A carnation with only two colours in the flower, the petals having large stripes.
• flake n. A flat turn or tier of rope.
• flake n. (US, law enforcement, slang) A corrupt arrest, e.g. to extort money for release or merely to fulfil a quota.
• flake n. A wire rack for drying fish.
• flake v. To break or chip off in a flake.
• flake v. (Colloquial) To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through.
• flake v. (Technical) To store an item such as rope or sail in layers.
• flake v. (Ireland, slang) To hit (another person).
• flake v. (US, law enforcement, slang) To plant evidence to facilitate a corrupt arrest.
• flake v. To lay out on a flake for drying.
• flake n. (UK) Dogfish.
• flake n. (Australia) The meat of the gummy shark.
• flake n. (UK, dialect) A paling; a hurdle.
• flake n. A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying…
• flake n. (Nautical) A small stage hung over a vessel’s side, for workmen to stand on while calking, etc.
• flake n. (Nautical) Alternative form of fake (“turn or coil of cable or hawser”).
• Flake prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign word, define in English —

• Albanian
  • flakë n. Flame.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• flake n. Vlok, een klontje luchtig materiaal.

— English words, defined in French —

• flake n. Flocon.
• flake n. Flocon de neige.
• flake n. (Informel) personne peu fiable.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• flake s. Fiocco.

128 English words from 22 English definitions

abandon A␣flat Alternative animal another anything Archaeology arrest Australia break cable calking carnation chip chiplike chipped coil Colloquial colours corrupt desert dialect Dogfish drying enforcement especially etc evidence extort facilitate fail fake fast filmy fish flake Flame flat flighty flower follow follow␣through for form fulfil gummy gummy␣shark having hawser hit hung hung␣over hurdle hurdles impractical inconsistent Informal interwoven Ireland item large law law␣enforcement lay layer layers lay␣out living loose made maintaining mass meat merely money Nautical of␣a off only out out␣of out␣on over paling person petals plant platform prehistoric prove quota rack release rope sail scale shark side similar slang small stage stanchions stand stand␣on sticks stone store stripes such such␣as supported surname Technical the thin through tier tool turn two unreliable vessel while who wire with workmen

1 English word from 5 foreign definitions

een

12 foreign words from 5 foreign definitions

fiable Fiocco Flocon Flocon␣de␣neige Informel klontje luchtig materiaal neige personne peu Vlok

20 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

flaked flaker flakes Flakes flakey flakers flakelet flake␣off flake␣out flakeable Flakegate flakeless flakelets flakelike flakeboard flakeproof flake␣white flakeboards flakey␣pastry flakey␣pastries

33 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

unflaked broflakes nonflaked rye␣flakes branflakes cornflakes corn␣flakes nanoflakes snowflaked snowflakes snow-flakes snowflakey soapflakes sootflakes microflakes snowflakery wheatflakes snowflake␣eel snowflake␣eels snowflakelike snowflakeness Koch␣snowflakes snowflake␣moray paper␣snowflakes snowflake␣morays spring␣snowflakes summer␣snowflakes snowflake␣obsidian special␣snowflakes snowflake␣obsidians snowflake␣generation Snowflake␣Generation California␣corn␣flakes

22 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

beflake broflake rye␣flake antiflake branflake cornflake corn␣flake nanoflake snowflake snow-flake soapflake sootflake microflake pentaflake wheatflake Koch␣snowflake paper␣snowflake spring␣snowflake summer␣snowflake special␣snowflake quiet␣as␣a␣snowflake Generation␣Snowflake

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ake Ake Fla FLA Fla. flak lak Lak LAK lake Lake

5 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Alf ALF 'alf eka- Kal.

2 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

fleak Lefka

14 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

defalk fakely fankle flaked flaker flakes Flakes flakey flaske fleaks frakel kaffle kefala Lefkas

20 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

Akel alef Alek fake falk Falk feak feal flak flea kale Kale KLFA Lafe lake Lake leaf Leaf leak Leak

11 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

blake Blake clake flaki flaks flaky flame flare fluke Fluke slake

4 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

fake flak lake Lake

One epenthesis (New word found when adding only one letter.)

flaske

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