der Friseur
Meaning in English: hairdresser
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Jobs in German list.
Example
Morgen habe ich einen Termin beim Friseur.
I've got a hairdresser's appointment tomorrow.
Der, die or das?
Friseur is masculine: der Friseur. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ur are usually die (12 of 14 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Friseur?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Friseur appears 2.7 times per million words — about once every 370,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.