der Faktor
Meaning in English: factor
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Zeit ist dabei ein wichtiger Faktor.
Time is an important factor here.
Der, die or das?
Faktor is masculine: der Faktor. 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.
Forms of Faktor in the top 5,000
These forms of Faktor are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Viele Faktoren spielen dabei eine Rolle.
Many factors play a part in this.
How common is Faktor?
Faktor is number 4,098 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words. Its most frequent form is Faktoren (#2,431).
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
- 4,094verankertanchored, enshrined
- 4,095optimierento optimise
- 4,096Störungendisruptions, faults
- 4,097beinahealmost, nearly
- 4,098der Faktorfactor
- 4,099weitelong, wide, far
- 4,100pflegento care for, to maintain
- 4,101der Ausschusscommittee
- 4,102bleibestay (I)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,098
- The most common German nouns#1,774
- German B2 vocabulary#950
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#454
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.