Floh
German, noun
Floh is spelled F-L-O-H (4 letters) and appears 4.7 times per million words in written German, the 12,890th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Floh is a German masculine noun meaning “flea (parasitic insect)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, floh is a different word: “first/third-person singular preterite of fliehen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “flügelloses Insekt mit flachem Körper, langen Sprungbeinen und Mundwerkzeugen zum Blutsaugen”.
What does Floh mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineflea (parasitic insect)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular preterite of fliehen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. flügelloses Insekt mit flachem Körper, langen Sprungbeinen und Mundwerkzeugen zum Blutsaugen 2. Geld
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 Floh
- Flohs genitive
- Flohes genitive
- Flöhe plural
- Flöhchen diminutive neuter
- Flohe dative singular
- Flöhen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Floh
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Floh in German?
Floh appears 4.7 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).