flails
/fleɪlz/
"flails" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flails” is uncommon English (frequency #88,342 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,342
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of flail
Corpus desk
Index EN-flails · flails · English
flails · rank #88,342 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,342
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flashcard
Nearest frequency peer: flashcard (+2 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “flails”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- firebug
firebug
11,664 corpus weight
- fisc
fisc
11,663 corpus weight
- fishbone
fishbone
11,662 corpus weight
- flails
flails
11,659 corpus weight
- flashcard
flashcard
11,657 corpus weight
- flix
flix
11,655 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flails” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flails |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /fleɪlz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,342 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flails” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flails is uncommon English at frequency #88,342 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /fleɪlz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of flail".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for flails, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is flails, spelled F-L-A-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1plural of flail
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).