flight
/ˈflaɪ̯t/noun, verb
flight is spelled F-L-I-G-H-T. The wrong spelling people search most is glight: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 1,250 of all searches for the word. Flight is a noun meaning “The act of flying; the ability to fly”. The plural of flight is flights.
How many letters and syllables are in flight?
| Letters | 6: F-L-I-G-H-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 72 times per million words; the 1,457th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, glight, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell flight?
Flight is spelled F-L-I-G-H-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 1,234 of the searches for flight in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is flight?
Flight appears 72 times per million words in written English, the 1,457th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce flight?
- US /ˈflaɪ̯t/
- US [ˈflaɪ̯t]
- /ˈflɐɪ̯t/
Flight has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-flight.ogg, En-au-flight.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with flight?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as flight from its last stressed vowel (/aɪt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of flight
- flights plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- more flight comparative
- most flight superlative
- flighting participle, present
- flighted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does flight mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The act of flying; the ability to fly.
Most birds are capable of flight.
- 2
An instance of flying.
The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
- 3
The trajectory or passage through air or space of a projectile, ship, etc.
The space shuttle's flight was carefully calculated long before takeoff.
- 4
A swift movement, especially as to escape; an escape.
The lizard's immediate flight when startled makes it hard to catch.
- 5
A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
The flight to Paris leaves at 7 o'clock tonight.
- 6
The aircraft used in a journey through air or space.
He boarded the flight to Miami.
- 7
The movement of a spinning ball through the air from the bowler to where it bounces on the pitch.
- 8
An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
a flight of fancy; a flight of the imagination
- 9
The act of fleeing.
take flight
verb
- 1
To throw the ball in such a way that it has more airtime and more spin than usual.
- 2
To throw or kick something so as to send it flying with more loft or airtime than usual.
adjective
- 1
obsoleteFast, swift, fleet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate flight?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of flight: flt..
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Flight in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vol , volée , escadrille , dégustation , fuite |
| German | Flug , Treppenlauf, Treppenflucht , Flucht |
| Portuguese | voo , lance , fuga, fugida , bando , andar |
| Spanish | vuelo , tramo , fuga, huida |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flight come from?
From Middle English flight, from Old English flyht (“flight”), from Proto-West Germanic *fluhti (“flight”), derived from *fleuganą (“to fly”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“to fly”), enlargement of *plew- (“flow”). Analyzable as fly + -t (variant of -th).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).