fly
[flaɪ]
The verdict
“fly” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #30,917) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #30,917
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 2,333
- “F” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Volar.
Corpus desk
Index ES-fly · fly · Spanish
fly · rank #30,917 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,917
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,333
- PHOTO-FINISH fluya
Nearest frequency peer: fluya (-1 rank slots)
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.
Vecinos de frecuencia del confusable “fly”
Pares de peso similar en el corpus, aparte de los confusables abajo
- filete
filete
69,087 corpus weight
- firmadas
firmadas
69,086 corpus weight
- fluya
fluya
69,085 corpus weight
- fly
fly
69,084 corpus weight
- fontana
fontana
69,083 corpus weight
- formativo
formativo
69,082 corpus weight
What this shows Las barras sitúan “fly” frente a los lemas españoles más cercanos por rango, no un reprint del escritorio de confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | fly |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [flaɪ] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #30,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rango de corpus junto a confusables de “fly”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for fly is neighbouring look-alikes ("fo", "FP", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced [flaɪ]. Frequency #30,917 among 2,333 “F” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for fly, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "fo", "FP", "fue", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct Spanish form is fly, spelled F-L-Y.
Definition
- 1Volar.
- 2Huir, escapar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how fly appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Birds can fly.
I'm flying to New York tomorrow.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).