Fön
German, noun
Fön is spelled F-Ö-N (3 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written German, the 43,786th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fön is a German masculine noun meaning “alternative spelling of Föhn (“hair-dryer”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). In lower case, fön is a different word: “singular imperative of fönen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “elektrisches Gerät zum Haaretrocknen”.
What does Fön mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculineFormerly standard spelling of Föhn which was deprecated in the spelling reform (Rechtschreibreform) of 1996.
- 2
masculinealternative spelling of Föhn (“hair-dryer”)
verb
- 1
singular imperative of fönen
- 2
colloquialfirst-person singular present of fönen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
abbreviation: 1. Telefon
noun: 1. Einheit der Lautstärke
noun: 1. eine Kwa-Sprache, die in Benin und Togo gesprochen wird
noun: 1. ein Volk in Benin und Nigeria 2. Angehöriger des gleichnamigen Volkes
noun: 1. elektrisches Gerät zum Haaretrocknen
suffix: 1. Laut, Geräusch, Klang
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 Fön
- Föns genitive
- Föne plural
- Fönen dative definite plural
- Phon alternative
- Fons nominative plural
- fon abbreviation
- (das) Fon nominative singular
- des Fon genitive singular
- des Fons genitive singular
- (dem) Fon dative singular
- Föhn alternative
- Fönes genitive singular
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to Fön
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Fön in German?
Fön appears about once in every 1 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).