German word lists, by frequency
Every list here is cut from the same ranking of the 5,000 most common German words, so a word has the same rank wherever you meet it. Each entry has an English translation, part of speech, CEFR level, an example sentence and audio, and every word links to its own page with its other forms, how common it is and related words.
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Coverage
In the corpus this list is built from, the top 100 words make up 44% of all running words, the top 1,000 reach 64% and all 5,000 reach 79%. The last 4,000 are where reading gets comfortable. How the list was built.