flywire
/ˈflʌɪwʌɪə/noun
flywire is a noun meaning “A type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-W-I-R-E, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flywire is flywires.
What does flywire mean?
noun
- 1
AustraliaA type of screening used to exclude flies and other insects.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flywire?
- UK /ˈflʌɪwʌɪə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_flywire.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flywire
- flywires plural
- fly-wire
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flywire?
Flywire 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 flywire come from?
From fly + wire.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).