superfly
"superfly" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“superfly” is uncommon English (frequency #72,798 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,798
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | superfly |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,798 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “superfly” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
superfly is uncommon English at frequency #72,798 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for superfly, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972). The correct English form is superfly, spelled S-U-P-E-R-F-L-Y.
Definition
- 1An ostentatious, self-confident person, especially a black drug dealer.
Etymology
From the character in the blaxploitation film Super Fly (1972).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “superfly”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-P-E-R-F-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.