Fliess
German, noun
Fliess is spelled F-L-I-E-S-S (6 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written German, the 75,468th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fliess is a German masculine noun meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Fließ” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, fliess is a different word: “singular imperative of fliessen”.
What does Fliess mean in English?
noun
- 1
SwitzerlandmasculineneuterSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of Fließ
verb
- 1
singular imperative of fliessen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Fliess
- Fliesses genitive
- Fliesse plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Fliess in German?
Fliess 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).