German noun, neuter · CEFR B2
das Duell
Meaning in English: duel, head-to-head
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Am Sonntag kommt es zum Duell der beiden Tabellenführer.
On Sunday the two league leaders go head to head.
Der, die or das?
Duell is neuter: das Duell. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Duell?
Duell is number 3,100 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% 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
- 3,096der Dienstleisterservice provider
- 3,097ergänzento add, to complement
- 3,098verletzteninjured (inflected)
- 3,099Songssongs
- 3,100das Duellduel, head-to-head
- 3,101gekauftbought
- 3,102der Gangcorridor, gear, course (meal)
- 3,103kulturellencultural
- 3,104professionelleprofessional
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,100
- The most common German nouns#1,301
- German B2 vocabulary#630
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#156
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.