flied
"flied" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flied” is uncommon English (frequency #94,865 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,865
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of fly (hit a fly ball)
Corpus desk
Index EN-flied · flied · English
flied · rank #94,865 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,865
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flexural
Nearest frequency peer: flexural (-1 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 “flied”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Fiero
Fiero
5,141 corpus weight
- flavorless
flavorless
5,138 corpus weight
- flexural
flexural
5,137 corpus weight
- flied
flied
5,136 corpus weight
- flitted
flitted
5,135 corpus weight
- floodgate
floodgate
5,133 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “flied” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flied |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #94,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flied” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flied is uncommon English at frequency #94,865 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for flied in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is flied, spelled F-L-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of fly (hit a fly ball)
- 2simple past and past participle of fly
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how flied appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indeed, fans love the fact that characters in the songs goed somewhere rather than went, or flied instead of flew. “Some people have said that the songs touch them because they were never deeply listened to as a child,” says [Stephen] Spencer.
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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