barfly
/bɑːflaɪ/
"barfly" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“barfly” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
Corpus desk
Index EN-barfly · barfly · English
barfly · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | barfly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /bɑːflaɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “barfly” in English
Rare enough to double-check
barfly is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /bɑːflaɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for barfly, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bar + fly. The correct English form is barfly, spelled B-A-R-F-L-Y.
Definition
- 1A person who spends much time in a bar or similar drinking establishment
- 2A promiscuous person, especially a woman, who frequents bars hoping to find sexual partners
Etymology
From bar + fly.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.