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flyting

noun

flyting is a noun meaning “Contention, noisy argument” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-T-I-N-G, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flyting is flytings.

What does flyting mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Contention, noisy argument.

  2. 2

    Scolding, rebuke.

  3. 3

    A poetic contest of insults or invective.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flyting

  • flytings plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flyting?

Flyting appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th 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).

Where does flyting come from?

From Middle English fliting, flytyng, equivalent to flyte + -ing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).