German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Formel
Meaning in English: formula
Example
Die Formel habe ich schon wieder vergessen.
I've forgotten the formula again.
Der, die or das?
Formel is feminine: die Formel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Formel?
Formel is number 3,640 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,636übento practise
- 3,637die Gegenwartpresent (time); presence
- 3,638gültigvalid
- 3,639Sanktionensanctions
- 3,640die Formelformula
- 3,641schriftlichenwritten
- 3,642gemeintmeant
- 3,643geleistetachieved, done, performed
- 3,644wirksameffective
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- The 5,000 most common German words#3,640
- The most common German nouns#1,560
- German B2 vocabulary#800
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#511
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.