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Fleck

German, noun/flɛk/

Fleck is spelled F-L-E-C-K (5 letters) and appears 8.7 times per million words in written German, the 7,885th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fleck is a German masculine noun meaning “stain, spot, blot, fleck, smear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Stelle, die verschmutzt (und schlecht^([1])) ist”.

What does Fleck mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinestain, spot, blot, fleck, smear

  2. 2

    masculinecorner, spot (part or region)

  3. 3

    archaicmasculineshred, flap, flake, fleck

  4. 4

    masculinetripe

Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How German dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Stelle, die verschmutzt (und schlecht^([1])) ist 2. Stelle, die andersfarbig ist 3. bestimmter Ort oder Stelle 4. zum Verzehr gedachte Streifen aus dem Vormagen von Wiederkäuern

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 Fleck

  • Flecks genitive
  • Flecke plural
  • Flecken plural
  • Fleckchen diminutive neuter
  • Fleckerl diminutive
  • Fleckes genitive singular

Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce Fleck?

  • /flɛk/
  • [flɛk]

Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to Fleck

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is Fleck in German?

Fleck appears 8.7 times per million words in written German.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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