FlyervsflyersTell them apart

Quick tell: Flyer is a noun, flyers is a verb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“Flyer” is a noun and “flyers” is a verb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,365
“Flyer” frequency rank
#42,493
“flyers” frequency rank
51858
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature Flyer flyers
Definition Papierblatt mit Informationen (wie zum Beispiel einer Werbebotschaft), das verteilt wird 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs flyer

Letter map: Flyer vs flyers

Shared letters muted; letters that set Flyer and flyers apart highlighted. Shared run: 5.

5 ch
Flyer
6 ch
flyers

Part-of-speech tell for Flyer / flyers

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: Flyer is anoun and flyersaverb. On the page they differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “Flyer” sits inside “flyers”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51858, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

Flyer is recorded at frequency rank #9,365, classified as anoun, pronounced [ˈflaɪ̯ɐ]. flyers is at rank #42,493, tagged as averb, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 51858, this pair ranks #1,119,293 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of Flyer vs flyers

Shared letters: eflry. Private to "Flyer": -. Private to "flyers": s.

"Flyer" · 5 letters · shape CCVVC  ·  "flyers" · 6 letters · shape CCVVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • Flyerfflyer · fleyr · fllyer · flyerr · flyre · flyyer · fyler · lfyer
  • flyersfflyers · fleyrs · fllyers · flyerrs · flyerss · flyesr · flyres · flyyers

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "Flyer" and "flyers" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "Flyer" is a noun and "flyers" a verb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "Flyer" or "flyers"?
"Flyer" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,365 in our German list, against #42,493 for "flyers". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

Pair "Flyer" vs "flyers" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "Flyer" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "flyers" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,119,293 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "Flyer" and "flyers" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "flyers vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,119,293 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list