no-fly zone

noun

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"no-fly-zone" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“no-fly zone” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.

Corpus desk

Index EN-no-fly-zone · no-fly zone · English

no-fly zone · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "N" 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.

Key facts for no-fly zone
PropertyValue
Headwordno-fly zone
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “no-fly zone” sits in English frequency

no-fly zone falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

no-fly zone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.".

no-fly zone has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is no-fly zone, spelled N-O---F-L-Y- -Z-O-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.

This word in other languages

zone d'exclusion aérienne(Français)Flugverbotszone(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "no-fly zone"?
"no-fly zone" is spelled N-O---F-L-Y- -Z-O-N-E.
What does "no-fly zone" mean?
As a noun, "no-fly zone" means: An airspace in which aircraft, especially military aircraft, are forbidden to fly.
What language does "no-fly zone" come from?
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Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list