flankieren
German, verb/flaŋˈkiːʁən/
flankieren is spelled F-L-A-N-K-I-E-R-E-N (10 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flankieren is a German verb meaning “to flank (to be positioned or following to both sides, e.g. of guards)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “rechts und links zur Seite stehen oder begleiten”.
What does flankieren mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flank (to be positioned or following to both sides, e.g. of guards)
- 2
to accompany, to combine (with other measures in parallel)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. rechts und links zur Seite stehen oder begleiten 2. schützend begleiten 3. einen Läufer auf eine spezielle Art auf dem Königs- oder Damenflügel positionieren
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of flankieren
- flankiert present singular third-person
- flankierte past
- haben auxiliary
- flankierend participle present
- flankiere first-person indicative present
- flankierst indicative present second-person
- flankierest second-person singular subjunctive
- flankieret plural second-person subjunctive
- flankierten first-person indicative plural
- flankiertest indicative preterite second-person
- flankiertet indicative plural preterite
- flankier imperative second-person singular
- habe flankiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben flankiert first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flankiere! imperative singular
- flankier! imperative singular
- flankiert! imperative plural
- flankiert haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flankieren?
- /flaŋˈkiːʁən/
- [flaŋˈkʰiːɐ̯n]
- [flaŋˈkiːʁən]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to flankieren
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is flankieren in German?
flankieren appears about once in every 3 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).