entflohen

[ɛntˈfloːən]

/[ɛntˈfloːən]/ verb

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The verdict

“entflohen” is uncommon German (frequency #60,522 among 4,632 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,522
frequency rank, German
4,632
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen

Corpus desk

Index DE-entflohen · entflohen · German

entflohen · rank #60,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,522
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,632
  • PHOTO-FINISH entflammt

Nearest frequency peer: entflammt (-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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „entflohen“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „entflohen“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for entflohen
PropertyValue
Headwordentflohen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ɛntˈfloːən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#60,522
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „entflohen“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).entflohenfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „entflammt“ (#60,521), „Enthaltsamkeit“ (#60,523), „Engpässen“ (#60,520). Unter 4,632 „E“-Lemmata liegt „entflohen“ bei #60,522. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

entflohen is uncommon German at frequency #60,522 among 4,632 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [ɛntˈfloːən]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for entflohen, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is entflohen, spelled E-N-T-F-L-O-H-E-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how entflohen appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Letzten Sommer haben wir die ganze Wohnung entflohen müssen.
  2. Man muss nicht nur den Hund entflohen, wichtig ist, dass auch der Schlafplatz entfloht wird.

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "entflohen"?
"entflohen" is spelled E-N-T-F-L-O-H-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is [ɛntˈfloːən].
What does "entflohen" mean?
As a verb, "entflohen" means: Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen
How do you pronounce "entflohen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "entflohen" is [ɛntˈfloːən]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "entflohen" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "entflohen", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

entflammt#60,521Engpässen#60,520Entitäten#60,524Endgegner#60,518

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list