German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Geschlecht
Meaning in English: gender, sex
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Geschlecht is neuter: das Geschlecht. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Geschlecht?
Geschlecht is number 4,339 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 53,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,335qualitativqualitative, in quality
- 4,336die Ergänzungaddition, supplement
- 4,337entlassento dismiss, to discharge, released
- 4,338bedientserved, operated
- 4,339das Geschlechtgender, sex
- 4,340die Akzeptanzacceptance
- 4,341durchsetzento enforce, to assert (oneself)
- 4,342benanntnamed
- 4,343der Lkwtruck, lorry
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,339
- The most common German nouns#1,881
- German B1 vocabulary#1,417
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#226
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.