Flucht
German, noun
Flucht is spelled F-L-U-C-H-T (6 letters) and appears 35 times per million words in written German, the 2,396th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Flucht is a German feminine noun meaning “escape, flight (act of fleeing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, flucht is a different word: “third-person singular present”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “rasches Entfliehen von einer Sache, die Gefahr oder Unglück verheißt”.
What does Flucht mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineescape, flight (act of fleeing)
noun
- 1
feminineline, alignment (vertical or horizontal line along which houses, walls, windows or other building elements are arranged)
- 2
datedfemininesuite, line of rooms, number of rooms interconnected by doors
- 3
feminineflock of birds
verb
- 1
third-person singular present
- 2
second-person plural present
- 3
plural imperative
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. rasches Entfliehen von einer Sache, die Gefahr oder Unglück verheißt 2. das Befreien von einem Zwang oder einer negativen Situation
noun: 1. geradliniger Verlauf von etwas; Elemente oder Objekte, die in einer geraden Linie hintereinander angeordnet sind 2. Architektur: zusammengehörige Anordnung von Räumen, die ursprünglich als Enfilade geradlinig hintereinander lagen, so dass die mittig angeordnete Türen eine Blickachse bildeten
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 Flucht
- Fluchten plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Flucht
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Flucht in German?
Flucht appears 35 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).