German noun, feminine · CEFR C1

die Barrierefreiheit

Meaning in English: accessibility (step-free)

Rank 2,741 of 5,000noun · dieLevel C1
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Example

Bei Neubauten ist Barrierefreiheit heute Pflicht.

Accessibility is now mandatory in new buildings.

Der, die or das?

Barrierefreiheit is feminine: die Barrierefreiheit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -heit are die in 11 of 11 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Barrierefreiheit?

Barrierefreiheit is number 2,741 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. C1 means an advanced word, mostly met in formal or written German.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 2,737bestelltordered
  2. 2,738spannendexciting, gripping
  3. 2,739verletzteinjured
  4. 2,740monatlichmonthly
  5. 2,741die Barrierefreiheitaccessibility (step-free)
  6. 2,742verbreitetwidespread, common
  7. 2,743erfolgtetook place, was made (past)
  8. 2,744tiefedeep
  9. 2,745klassischeclassical, classic

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