fliessen
German, verb
fliessen is spelled F-L-I-E-S-S-E-N (8 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,523rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fliessen is a German verb meaning “Switzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of fließen” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Fliessen is a different word: “dative plural of Fliess”.
What does fliessen mean in English?
verb
- 1
SwitzerlandSwitzerland and Liechtenstein standard spelling of fließen
noun
- 1
neuterdative plural of Fliess
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of fliessen
- fliesst present singular third-person
- floss past
- geflossen participle past
- flösse past subjunctive
- sein auxiliary
- 2 strong
- fliessend participle present
- fliesse first-person indicative present
- fliessest second-person singular subjunctive
- fliesset plural second-person subjunctive
- flossen first-person indicative plural
- flössen first-person formal plural
- flossest indicative preterite second-person
- flosst indicative preterite second-person
- flössest formal rare second-person
- flösst formal rare second-person
- flösset formal plural rare
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is fliessen in German?
fliessen appears 11 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).