flet

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From Middle English flet (“floor of a house; house”), from Old English flet, flett (“the ground; the floor of a house; house; dwelling”), from Proto-West Germanic *flati, from Proto-Germanic *flatją (“a flat or level surface, level ground, floor, hallway”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat, broad”). Cognate with Dutch vlet (“flat-bottomed vessel, dory”), Low German Flet (“an upper bedroom”), German Fletz, Flötz (“level ground, threshing floor, hallway, set of rooms or benches”). More at flat.

noun flets · fleet · flette

dialectal, rare Floor; bottom; lower surface.
dialectal, rare A house; home.

FLET^²

noun FLETs

US forward line of enemy troops, front line

Opposite: FLOT

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@misc{flet_2026,
  title = {flet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/flet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}