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fluky

fluky is the alternative spelling of flukey.

Meaning of flukey

Adjective

flukey (comparative more flukey, superlative most flukey)

  1. Lucky.
    • For once, at a World Cup finals England could enjoy themselves, cut loose, score a bucket-load of goals, and giggle at the fact that Harry Kane’s hat-trick goal that makes him the tournament top goalscorer was a flukey deflection off his heel.2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, “Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification”, in Telegraph (UK), retrieved 24 Jun 2018
    Synonyms:
    jammy
  2. Unstable, prone to rapid and unpredictable changes.
    • We would have got to Spain already if it wasn't for the flukey wind.

Forms of fluky

comparativeflukier
comparativemore fluky
superlativeflukiest
superlativemost fluky

Words formed from fluky

Questions about fluky

What is fluky the alternative spelling of?
Fluky is the alternative spelling of flukey.

Words near fluky in the dictionary

  1. fluking out
  2. fluking up
  3. flukish
  4. flukishly
  5. flukishness
  6. fluky
  7. flulike
  8. flumadiddle
  9. flumadiddles
  10. flumatinib
  11. flumazenil

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluky (page history and authors); flukey (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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