flight risk
"flight-risk" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flight risk” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The possibility that a person under the custody of law enforcement will abscond if granted bail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-flight-risk · flight risk · English
flight risk · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "F" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flight risk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “flight risk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
flight risk is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
flight risk doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 flight risk, spelled F-L-I-G-H-T- -R-I-S-K.
Definition
- 1The possibility that a person under the custody of law enforcement will abscond if granted bail.
- 2A person who is considered likely to abscond.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how flight risk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The court took flight risk into consideration when deciding bail for Mr Smith.
The court refused to grant Mr Smith bail as he was considered a flight risk.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.