Be sure to clear the lint trap before you run the dryer. Otherwise, you might start a fire.
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Lint
//lɪnt//
Synonyms for "lint" (74 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (15)
Strong matches (22)
Related words (37)
Related word relations
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More general
6 entriesat location
5 entriesderived
12 entrieshas context
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
29 entriesShowing 16 of 29 words.
Translations
64 translations across 26 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- wolletjies noun (fuzzy fluff)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ξύσμα noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- марля noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Catalan
2 entries- borrissol noun (fuzzy fluff)
- gasa noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 絨毛 /绒毛 noun (fuzzy fluff)
Danish
1 entries- fnug noun (fuzzy fluff)
Dutch
3 entries- pluis noun (fuzzy fluff)
- pluis noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- pluksel noun (fuzzy fluff)
Esperanto
1 entries- ĉarpio noun (fuzzy fluff)
Finnish
4 entries- hahtuva noun (fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant)
- nukka noun (fuzzy fluff)
- nöyhtä noun (fuzzy fluff)
- pumpuli noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
French
3 entries- charpie noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- mouton noun (fuzzy fluff)
- peluche noun (fuzzy fluff)
Galician
2 entries- froxel noun (fuzzy fluff)
- peluxe noun (fuzzy fluff)
German
4 entries- Flaum noun (fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant)
- Fluse noun (fuzzy fluff)
- Fussel noun (fuzzy fluff)
- Scharpie noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Hungarian
1 entries- szösz noun (fuzzy fluff)
Irish
2 entries- clúmh noun (fuzzy fluff)
- línolann noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Italian
1 entries- lanugine noun (fuzzy fluff)
Japanese
4 entries- [navel lint:] 臍の胡麻 noun (fuzzy fluff)
- リント布 noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- 糸屑 noun (fuzzy fluff)
- 綿埃 noun (fuzzy fluff)
Māori
3 entries- kerehunga noun (fuzzy fluff)
- perehunga noun (fuzzy fluff)
- tawhe noun (fuzzy fluff)
Norwegian
2 entries- lo noun (fuzzy fluff)
- lo noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Polish
4 entries- kłaczek noun (fuzzy fluff)
- kłaczek noun (fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant)
- szarpie noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- włókna bawełny noun (raw cotton ready for baling)
Portuguese
3 entries- cotão noun (fuzzy fluff)
- cotão noun (fibrous coat of thick hairs covering the seeds of the cotton plant)
- gaze noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Romanian
1 entries- scamă noun (fuzzy fluff)
Russian
4 entries- ворси́нка noun (fuzzy fluff)
- ко́рпия noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- линт noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- пух noun (fuzzy fluff)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- mucice noun (fuzzy fluff)
- pahuljice noun (fuzzy fluff)
- pahuljice noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- runo noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Spanish
4 entries- flojel noun (fuzzy fluff)
- flojuelo noun (fuzzy fluff)
- gasa noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- pelusa noun (fuzzy fluff)
Swedish
1 entries- ludd noun (fuzzy fluff)
Welsh
3 entries- gwlaniach noun (fuzzy fluff)
- nadd lliain noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
- naddion llin noun (a fine material made by scraping cotton or linen cloth)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
Check that there is no dust or lint on the power plug before inserting into an electrical outlet.
Source: tatoeba (1695363)
Be sure to clean the lint filter before you run the dryer. Otherwise, you might start a fire.
Source: tatoeba (3897866)
My pants has a lot of lint.
Source: tatoeba (9226240)
Showing 4 of 8 available sentences.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.