flyway
noun
flyway is a noun meaning “A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-W-A-Y and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flyway is flyways.
What does flyway mean?
noun
- 1
A migratory route used by birds between breeding areas.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flyway?
Flyway has 2 syllables (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 flyway
- flyways plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flyway?
Flyway appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 99,289th 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 flyway come from?
From fly + way.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).