My gums bleed whenever I floss my teeth.
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Floss
//flɒs//
Synonyms for "floss" (74 found)
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Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (37)
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More general
4 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
1 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
4 entrieshas prerequisite
1 entrieshas property
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
1 entriesnot has_property
1 entriesrelated to
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
used for
1 entriesTranslations
72 translations across 28 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- خَيْط أَسْنَان noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Armenian
1 entries- ատամի թել noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Bulgarian
4 entries- захарен памук noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- коне́ц за зъ́би noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- необработена коприна noun (silk fibres)
- свила noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
Catalan
1 entries- fil dental noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Chinese
1 entries- 齒線 /齿线 noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 牙線 /牙线 noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 牙線 /牙线 noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Danish
4 entries- dun noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
- floretsilke noun (silk fibres)
- råsilke noun (silk fibres)
- silke noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
Finnish
4 entries- hammaslanka noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- hattara noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- kuitu noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
- kuitu noun (any thread-like material having parallel strands)
French
2 entries- barbe à papa noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- fil dentaire noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
German
4 entries- Maiskolbenfaser noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
- Rohseide noun (silk fibres)
- Seidenfaser noun (silk fibres)
- Zahnseide noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Greek
4 entries- ακατέργαστο μετάξι noun (silk fibres)
- μαλλί της γριάς noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- οδοντική μέταξα noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- οδοντόνημα noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Hungarian
4 entries- fogselyem noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- patak noun (small stream)
- vattacukor noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- ér noun (small stream)
Icelandic
1 entries- tannþráður noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Indonesian
4 entries- benang gigi noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- gula kapas noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- gulali noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- permen kapas noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
Italian
2 entries- filo interdentale noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- zucchero filato noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
Japanese
2 entries- デンタルフロス noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- フロス noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Māori
2 entries- miro niho noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- wūru huka noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
Navajo
3 entries- awókʼiz análdiłí noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- awókʼiz bee naʼnildizí noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- wókʼiz naadǫ́zí noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- tanntråd noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- tanntråd noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Polish
1 entries- nić dentystyczna noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Portuguese
3 entries- cabelo noun (the fibres covering a corncob etc.)
- fio dental noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- usar fio dental verb (Translations)
Romanian
1 entries- ață dentară noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Russian
4 entries- зубна́я нить noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- ни́тка для чи́стки зубо́в noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- са́харная ва́та noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- флосс noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Spanish
4 entries- hilo dental noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- hilo dentario noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- hilo dentrífrico noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
- hilo dentífrico noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Swedish
2 entries- sockervadd noun (spun sugar or cotton candy)
- tandtråd noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Vietnamese
1 entries- chỉ nha khoa noun (a thread used to clean the gaps between the teeth)
Sample sentences
18 total sentences available.
When I was a kid, I used to think that fairy floss and clouds were alike.
Source: tatoeba (863896)
Do you have some dental floss?
Source: tatoeba (1360478)
Don't forget to floss.
Source: tatoeba (1860476)
Showing 4 of 18 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.