# fled vs Floyd

> English confusable word pair

## The two words

### fled
*verb · IPA /ˈflɛd/ · frequency rank #6,573*
simple past and past participle of flee

### Floyd
*name · IPA /flɔɪd/ · frequency rank #9,180*
A surname from Welsh, variant of Lloyd

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fled-vs-floyd