flanschen
German, verb/ˈflanʃən/
flanschen is spelled F-L-A-N-S-C-H-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 15 million words in written German, the 219,861st most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flanschen is a German verb meaning “to flange (to form into or furnish with a flange)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “etwas mit einem Verbindungsteil (Flansch) versehen”.
What does flanschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flange (to form into or furnish with a flange)
- 2
to affix with a flange
- 3
informalto bolt, to connect (to affix or connect solidly, but in a makeshift, individualized or unexpected way)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. etwas mit einem Verbindungsteil (Flansch) versehen 2. etwas mittels eines Flansches an etwas anderem befestigen
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 flanschen
- flanscht present singular third-person
- flanschte past
- geflanscht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flanschend participle present
- flansche first-person indicative present
- flanschst indicative present second-person
- flanschest second-person singular subjunctive
- flanschet plural second-person subjunctive
- flanschten first-person indicative plural
- flanschtest indicative preterite second-person
- flanschtet indicative plural preterite
- flansch imperative second-person singular
- habe geflanscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flansch! imperative singular
- flansche! imperative singular
- flanscht! imperative plural
- geflanscht haben active infinitive perfect
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce flanschen?
- /ˈflanʃən/
- [ˈflanʃn̩]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is flanschen in German?
flanschen appears about once in every 15 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).