flysch
/flɪʃ/noun
flysch is a noun meaning “A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-L-Y-S-C-H, and it appears about once in every 31 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of flysch is flysches.
What does flysch mean?
noun
- 1
A series of sandstones and schists overlying the true nummulitic formation in the Alps, and included in the Eocene Tertiary.
noun
- 1
A set of tertiary strata in the Alps.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce flysch?
- /flɪʃ/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-flysch.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of flysch
- flysches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is flysch?
Flysch appears about once in every 31 million words in written English, the 169,822nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Flysch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense series of sandstones and schists:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | flysch |
| German | Flysch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does flysch come from?
From German fließen (“to flow, to melt”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).