die Distanz
Meaning in English: distance
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Bitte halten Sie Distanz zu den anderen Gästen.
Please keep your distance from the other guests.
Der, die or das?
Distanz is feminine: die Distanz. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -anz are die in 5 of 5 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Distanz?
Distanz is number 4,244 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,240das Gehaltsalary
- 4,241stoppento stop
- 4,242gekennzeichnetmarked, labelled
- 4,243langemlong (dative, as in seit langem)
- 4,244die Distanzdistance
- 4,245eueryour (plural, informal)
- 4,246der Empfangreception, signal
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,244
- The most common German nouns#1,841
- German B2 vocabulary#997
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#590
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.