flöhen
German, verb
flöhen is spelled F-L-Ö-H-E-N (6 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written German, the 25,497th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flöhen is a German verb meaning “to flea, deflea (try to rid of fleas)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person plural subjunctive II of fliehen. Without its umlaut, flohen is a different word: “first/third-person plural preterite of fliehen”. With a capital, Flöhen is a different word: “dative plural of Floh”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “(jemanden) von Flöhen befreien”.
What does flöhen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to flea, deflea (try to rid of fleas)
- 2
datedto examine thoroughly
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural subjunctive II of fliehen
verb
- 1
first/third-person plural preterite of fliehen
noun
- 1
masculinedative plural of Floh
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. (jemanden) von Flöhen befreien 2. (etwas) gründlich durchsuchen
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 flöhen
- flöht present singular third-person
- flöhte past
- geflöht participle past
- haben auxiliary
- flöhend participle present
- flöhe first-person indicative present
- flöhst indicative present second-person
- flöhest second-person singular subjunctive
- flöhet plural second-person subjunctive
- flöhten first-person indicative plural
- flöhtest indicative preterite second-person
- flöhtet indicative plural preterite
- flöh imperative second-person singular
- habe geflöht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- haben geflöht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- flöh! imperative singular
- flöhe! imperative singular
- flöht! imperative plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is flöhen in German?
flöhen appears 1.9 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).