fliegen

/\ˈfliː.ɡən\/ verb

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

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fliegen is aFrenchverb. It means: Voler, se déplacer dans les airs avec ses ailes, parlant d'animaux. intransitif, conjugué avec sein. Pronounced \ˈfliː.ɡən\.

Key facts for fliegen
PropertyValue
Headwordfliegen
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ˈfliː.ɡən\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

fliegen is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for fliegen is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈfliː.ɡən\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for fliegen in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is fliegen, spelled F-L-I-E-G-E-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Voler, se déplacer dans les airs avec ses ailes, parlant d'animaux. intransitif, conjugué avec sein.
  2. 2
    Voler, se déplacer dans les airs à l’aide de propulsion technique. intransitif, conjugué avec sein.
  3. 3
    Voler, se déplacer dans les airs avec un avion ou dirigeable. intransitif, conjugué avec sein.
  4. 4
    Piloter, conduire un appareil volant. transitif, conjugué avec haben.
  5. 5
    Transporter par voie aérienne. transitif
  6. 6
    Conjugué avec sein S’envoler, être soufflé, être projeté. intransitif
  7. 7
    Conjugué avec sein Se déplacer rapidement. intransitif
  8. 8
    Conjugué avec sein Se faire virer, être exclu. intransitif
  9. 9
    transitif Effectuer, mener, faire (un manœuvre, une attaque, un service) avec un avion.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "fliegen"?
"fliegen" is spelled F-L-I-E-G-E-N. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈfliː.ɡən\.
What does "fliegen" mean?
As a verb, "fliegen" means: Voler, se déplacer dans les airs avec ses ailes, parlant d'animaux. intransitif, conjugué avec sein.
How do you pronounce "fliegen"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "fliegen" is \ˈfliː.ɡən\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "fliegen" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.