flies
/flaɪz/
"flies" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flies” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #6,142. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,142
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of fly
Corpus desk
Index EN-flies · flies · English
flies · rank #6,142 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,142
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH flags
Nearest frequency peer: flags (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “flies”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- fixing
fixing
93,862 corpus weight
- FL
FL
93,861 corpus weight
- flags
flags
93,860 corpus weight
- flies
flies
93,859 corpus weight
- forecast
forecast
93,858 corpus weight
- governance
governance
93,856 corpus weight
What this shows “flies” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flies |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /flaɪz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #6,142 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flies”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around flies (IPA /flaɪz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,142 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of fly".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for flies, with forms such as "fflies", "fleis", and "fliess". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "flip", "foes", "flue", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is flies, spelled F-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1plural of fly
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflies
- fleis
- fliess
- flise
- fllies
- lfies
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flies - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flies", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).