German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Chaos
Meaning in English: chaos
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
In deinem Zimmer herrscht mal wieder Chaos!
Your room is in chaos again!
Der, die or das?
Chaos is neuter: das Chaos. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Chaos?
Chaos is number 4,825 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 61,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,821kaltencold
- 4,822die Errichtungconstruction, establishment
- 4,823weiterführendefurther, secondary (school)
- 4,824landetlands
- 4,825das Chaoschaos
- 4,826die Entfernungdistance; removal
- 4,827wahrentrue, real
- 4,828langjährigenlong-standing, of many years
- 4,829die Übermittlungtransmission, sending
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,825
- The most common German nouns#2,118
- German B1 vocabulary#1,566
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#255
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.