flight
/flaɪt/
"flight" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flight” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,453. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,453
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of flying.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flight · flight · English
flight · rank #1,453 · 10 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,453
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH evening
Nearest frequency peer: evening (-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 “flight”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- condition
condition
98,551 corpus weight
- division
division
98,550 corpus weight
- evening
evening
98,549 corpus weight
- flight
flight
98,548 corpus weight
- freedom
freedom
98,547 corpus weight
- google
google
98,546 corpus weight
What this shows “flight” 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 | flight |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /flaɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #1,453 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flight”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around flight (IPA /flaɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,453 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 19 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for flight, with forms such as "fflight", "filght", and "flgiht". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "flint", "flirt", "fought", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der. Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-West Germanic *-þi Proto-West Germanic *fluhti Old English flyht Middle Engl… The correct English form is flight, spelled F-L-I-G-H-T.
Definition
- 1The act of flying.
- 2An instance of flying.
- 3A collective term for doves or swallows.
- 4A trip made by an aircraft, particularly one between two cities or countries, which is often planned or reserved in advance.
- 5A series of stairs between landings.
- 6A group of canal locks with a short distance between them
- 7A floor which is reached by stairs or escalators.
- 8The feathers on an arrow or dart used to help it follow an even path.
- 9A paper airplane.
- 10The movement of a spinning ball through the air, with its speed, trajectory and drift.
- 11The ballistic trajectory of an arrow or other projectile.
- 12An aerodynamic surface designed to guide such a projectile's trajectory.
- 13An air force unit.
- 14A numbered subclass of a given class of warship, denoting incremental modernizations to the original design.
- 15Several sample glasses of a specific wine varietal or other beverage. The pours are smaller than a full glass and the flight will generally include three to five different samples.
- 16A comparable sample of beers or other drinks.
- 17The shaped material forming the thread of a screw.
- 18An episode of imaginative thinking or dreaming.
- 19An advertising campaign of fixed length.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flight appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Most birds are capable of flight.
The migrating birds' flight took them to Africa.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *plew- Proto-Indo-European *plewk-der. Proto-Germanic *fleuganą Proto-West Germanic *fleugan Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Germanic *-þiz Proto-West Germanic *-þi Proto-West Germanic *fluhti Old English flyht Middle English flight English flight 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). Cognate with West Frisian flecht (“flight”), Dutch vlucht (“flight”), German Flucht (“flight”) (etymology 2).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflight
- filght
- flgiht
- fligght
- flighht
- flightt
- fligth
- flihgt
- fllight
- lfight
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flight - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
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