variants
or less commonly flukey
flukier; flukiest
1
: happening by or depending on chance
2
: being unsteady or uncertain
—used especially of wind
Examples of fluky in a Sentence
a fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit
the fluky selection of consecutive numbers on consecutive days of the lottery
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Thompson has been doubted nearly every step of the way, and his early success could have been written off as fluky, or not replicable.
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Jesse Granger, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2026
And there was nothing fluky about it.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
The wind was a fluky northwesterly, gusty at the starting gun, such that a couple of blades levitated briefly, as if launching into flight.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
A couple were fluky, like a strip-sack and an interception in the end zone deflected by a defender’s face mask.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
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Jesse Granger, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2026
And there was nothing fluky about it.
—Troy Renck, Denver Post, 29 Mar. 2026
The wind was a fluky northwesterly, gusty at the starting gun, such that a couple of blades levitated briefly, as if launching into flight.
—Ben McGrath, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
A couple were fluky, like a strip-sack and an interception in the end zone deflected by a defender’s face mask.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for fluky
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“Fluky.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fluky. Accessed 20 Apr. 2026.
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