# fleet

> English word · Noun · IPA /fliːt/ · frequency rank #4,084

## Definitions
1. A group of vessels or vehicles.
2. Any group of associated items.
3. A large, coordinated group of people.
4. A number of vessels in company, especially war vessels; also, the collective naval force of a country, etc.
5. Any command of vessels exceeding a squadron in size, or a rear admiral's command, composed of five sail-of-the-line, with any number of smaller vessels.
6. The individual waves in corrugated fiberboard.

## Etymology
From Middle English flete, flet (“fleet”), from Old English flēot (“ship”), likely related to Proto-West Germanic *flotōn, from Proto-Germanic *flutōną (“to float”).

## Easily confused with
- **free** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-free)
- **flew** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flew)
- **flex** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flex)
- **fret** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-fret)
- **flue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flue)
- **flesh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flesh)
- **flies** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flies)
- **float** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-float)
- **freed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-freed)
- **flint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flint)
- **flyer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flyer)
- **flirt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flirt)
- **frees** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-frees)
- **freer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-freer)
- **fleur** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-fleur)
- **flier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flier)
- **fluent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-fluent)
- **fleets** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-fleets)
- **flexed** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fleet-vs-flexed)
- **fee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/fee-vs-fleet)

## Common misspellings (6)
`felet`, `ffleet`, `fleett`, `flete`, `flleet`, `lfeet`

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