flies
\fli\
The verdict
“flies” is uncommon French (frequency #91,699 among 3,276 “F” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,699
- frequency rank, French
- 3,276
- “F” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de flie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-flies · flies · French
flies · rank #91,699 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,699
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,276
- PHOTO-FINISH flashmob
Nearest frequency peer: flashmob (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « flies »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ferrugineux
ferrugineux
8,307 corpus weight
- fiscalisati…
fiscalisation
8,305 corpus weight
- flashmob
flashmob
8,303 corpus weight
- flies
flies
8,302 corpus weight
- foisonne
foisonne
8,299 corpus weight
- foliaires
foliaires
8,298 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « flies » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | flies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \fli\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #91,699 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « flies » en français
Rare enough to double-check
flies is uncommon French at frequency #91,699 among 3,276 “F” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \fli\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de flie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for flies in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is flies, spelled F-L-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de flie.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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