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You can make 10 words from flap according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of flap

flap lfap falp aflp lafp alfp flpa lfpa fpla pfla lpfa plfa fapl afpl fpal pfal apfl pafl lapf alpf lpaf plaf aplf palf

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word flap. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in flap.

Definitions and meaning of flap

flap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæp/
• Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English flap, flappe (“a slap; blow; buffet; fly-flap; something flexible or loose; flap”), related to Saterland Frisian Flappert (“wing, flipper”), Middle Dutch flabbe (“a blow; slap on the face; fly-flap; flap”) (modern Dutch flap (“flap”)), Middle Low German flabbe, vlabbe, flebbe, from the verb (see below). Related also to English flab and flabby.

Noun

flap (plural flaps)

1. Anything broad and flexible that hangs loose, or that is attached by one side or end and is easily moved.
3. A hinged leaf.

4. (aviation) A hinged surface on the trailing edge of the wings of an aeroplane, used to increase lift and drag.
5. A side fin of a ray.

   Synonym: wing

6. The motion of anything broad and loose, or a sound or stroke made with it.
8. A controversy, scandal, stir, or upset.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion
10. (phonetics) A consonant sound made by a single muscle contraction, such as the sound /ɾ/ in the standard American English pronunciation of body.

    Synonym: tap

11. (surgery) A piece of tissue incompletely detached from the body, as an intermediate stage of plastic surgery.
12. (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) The labia, the vulva.
13. (obsolete) A blow or slap (especially to the face).
    • 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː

      Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.

    • a1500 The Prose Merlinː

      The squire lift up his hand and gave him such a flap that all they in the chapel might it hear.

14. (obsolete) A young prostitute.

Hyponyms

(aviation):

• blown flap
• Fairey-Youngman flap
• Fowler flap
• Gouge flap
• Junkers flap
• plain flap
• slotted flap
• split flap

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• flap on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fold
• lappet

Etymology 2

From Middle English flappen (“to flap, clap, slap, strike”), related to Dutch flappen (“to flap”), German Low German flappen (“to flap”), German flappen (“to flap”), Dutch flabberen (“to flit, flap”). Probably ultimately imitative.

Verb

flap (third-person singular simple present flaps, present participle flapping, simple past and past participle flapped)

1. (transitive) To move (something broad and loose) up and down.
2. (intransitive) To move loosely back and forth.
3. (phonetics, transitive) To pronounce (something) as a flap consonant.
4. (phonetics, intransitive) To be pronounced with a flap consonant.
5. (computing, telecommunications, intransitive, of a resource or network destination) To be advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession.

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Translations

Anagrams

• PLAF

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch flabbe, probably ultimately imitative.

Pronunciation

Noun

flap m (plural flappen, diminutive flapje n)

1. flap (something flexible that is loose)
2. (colloquial) banknote

Derived terms

• appelflap
• flappentap
• flappen tappen

Spanish

Noun

flap m (plural flaps)

1. (aeronautics) flap

Further reading

• “flap”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Volapük

Noun

flap (nominative plural flaps)

1. blow, hit

Declension

Derived terms

• flapan
• flapön