Home › Words › F › flankenflankenflanken means A certain cut of beef used in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made by cutting short ribs across the bone.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, flanken ranks #8,616 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyBorrowed from Yiddish פֿלאַנקען (flanken).nounA certain cut of beef used in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made by cutting short ribs across the bonee.g.“Carol's funny story about her son's first efforts at cooking flanken meets with silence from Frances, who confesses ignorance of both the dish and its preparation.” — 1991 January 4, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Solomons' Choice”, in Chicago Reader:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.bavette 63% match — A kind of beefsteak; beef flank steak vs flanken →ribroast 57% match — A cut of beef from the main rib. vs flanken →flanching 57% match — A flange. vs flanken →lesk 57% match — The loin; flank. vs flanken →flank 56% match — To attack the flank(s) of. vs flanken →frenched 56% match — Pertaining to servings of meat that have stylishly exposed bone protruding from them (meat with bones that have been French trimmed) vs flanken →flanchard 56% match — A piece of armor designed to be attached to the sides of a saddle to protect the flanks of the horse. vs flanken →flitch 55% match — The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon. vs flanken →