entflohen

/[ɛntˈfloːən]/ verb

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#60,522

in German word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

entflohen is aGermanverb. It means: Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen Pronounced [ɛntˈfloːən].

Key facts for entflohen
PropertyValue
Headwordentflohen
LanguageGerman
Part of speechVerb
IPA[ɛntˈfloːən]
Letters9
Frequency rank#60,522
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of entflohen in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for entflohen is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ɛntˈfloːən]. Corpus data places it at rank #60,522 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for entflohen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable German patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is entflohen, spelled E-N-T-F-L-O-H-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Flöhe (aus einer Örtlichkeit) entfernen

Frequency rank: #60,522 in German

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?
"entflohen" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.