flown
/ˈfləʊn/
"flown" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“flown” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,179. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,179
- frequency rank, English
- 2,507
- “F” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - past participle of fly
Corpus desk
Index EN-flown · flown · English
flown · rank #9,179 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,179
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,507
- PHOTO-FINISH fireworks
Nearest frequency peer: fireworks (-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 “flown”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- entertain
entertain
90,826 corpus weight
- exploit
exploit
90,824 corpus weight
- fireworks
fireworks
90,823 corpus weight
- flown
flown
90,822 corpus weight
- Floyd
Floyd
90,821 corpus weight
- freeman
freeman
90,819 corpus weight
What this shows “flown” 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 | flown |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ˈfləʊn/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “flown”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around flown (IPA /ˈfləʊn/), averb. Corpus frequency is #9,179 among 2,507 “F” headwords. Dominant gloss: "past participle of fly".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for flown, with forms such as "fflown", "fllown", and "flonw". 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, "fowl", "flows", "Floyd", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”). The correct English form is flown, spelled F-L-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1past participle of fly
Etymology
From Middle English flowen, floȝen, from Old English flogen, ġeflogen, past participle of Old English flēogan (“to fly”).
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- fflown
- fllown
- flonw
- flownn
- flowwn
- flwon
- folwn
- lfown
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of flown - 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "flown", 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 (8 here; floor ≥5).