flye
/flaɪ/noun
flye is a noun meaning “An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-E and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flye is flyes.
What does flye mean?
noun
- 1
An exercise performed by moving extended arms through an arc while the elbows are kept at a fixed angle, especially those done to exercise the chest muscles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flye?
- US /flaɪ/
Flye has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of flye
- flyes plural
- fly
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flye?
Flye appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Words people confuse with flye
Sounds like: fly (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).