fly-away
"fly-away" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“fly-away” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of flyaway.
Corpus desk
Index EN-fly-away · fly-away · English
fly-away · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | fly-away |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “fly-away” in English
Rare enough to double-check
fly-away is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of flyaway.".
No misspelling variants are generated for fly-away in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is fly-away, spelled F-L-Y---A-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of flyaway.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fly-away appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dave was as steady and solid as she was fickle and fly-away, and in some way Dave, who never doubted anybody, doubted her.
It's a breath of old times, alas! all forgotten in these fly-away days.
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.