der Chor
Meaning in English: choir
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Meine Oma singt seit Jahren im Chor.
My grandma has been singing in a choir for years.
Der, die or das?
Chor is masculine: der Chor. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -or are der in 8 of 9 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Chor?
Chor is number 4,784 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 60,000 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
- 4,780das Silbersilver
- 4,781reichlichplenty, ample; rather
- 4,782der Strandbeach
- 4,783der Ortsteildistrict, part of a town
- 4,784der Chorchoir
- 4,785festgehaltenheld on to; recorded, noted
- 4,786Mängeldefects, shortcomings
- 4,787riesigenhuge, giant
- 4,788Haarehair
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,784
- The most common German nouns#2,099
- German B1 vocabulary#1,555
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#521
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.