flits
/flɪts/
"flits" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flits” is uncommon English (frequency #93,705 among 2,507 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,705
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of flit
Corpus desk
Index EN-flits · flits · English
flits · rank #93,705 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,705
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH Fluxus
Nearest frequency peer: Fluxus (+2 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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “flits”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
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flagon
6,301 corpus weight
- flamboyance
flamboyance
6,300 corpus weight
- flits
flits
6,296 corpus weight
- Fluxus
Fluxus
6,294 corpus weight
- forbear
forbear
6,291 corpus weight
- forefather
forefather
6,290 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “flits” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flits |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /flɪts/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #93,705 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “flits” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
flits is uncommon English at frequency #93,705 among 2,507 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /flɪts/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of flit".
No misspelling variants are generated for flits in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 flits, spelled F-L-I-T-S.
Definition
- 1plural of flit
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.