flyleaf

1. 1.

   a blank leaf in the front or back of a book

   Broaderleaf

Other forms of flyleaf

plural

flyleaves

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about flyleaf

What does flyleaf mean?

flyleaf means "a blank leaf in the front or back of a book".

How many syllables are in flyleaf?

flyleaf has 3 syllables: fly-le-af. The stress falls on "fly".

Is flyleaf a common word?

flyleaf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.