flugel

noun

flugel is a noun meaning “Alternative form of flugelhorn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-U-G-E-L, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flugel is flugels.

What does flugel mean?

noun

1
Alternative form of flugelhorn.
2
obsoleteA harpsichord.
3
obsoleteA grand piano.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of flugel

flugels plural
flügel

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is flugel?

Flugel appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.

flugel0.0010.010.11101001,00010,000

rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does flugel come from?

Borrowed from German Flügel. Applied to the harpsichord and grand piano due to their wing-like shape.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).