whitefly
noun
whitefly is a noun meaning “Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled W-H-I-T-E-F-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 18 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of whitefly is whiteflies.
What does whitefly mean?
noun
- 1
Any of various small insects of the family Aleyrodidae that have long wings, and a white body; often a garden pest
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce whitefly?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-whitefly.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of whitefly
- whiteflies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is whitefly?
Whitefly appears about once in every 18 million words in written English, the 127,184th 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).
Whitefly in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Any of various Aleyrodidae:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | mouche blanche, aleurode |
| German | Mottenschildlaus |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does whitefly come from?
From white + fly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).