die Geschwindigkeit
Meaning in English: speed
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Bitte reduzieren Sie die Geschwindigkeit in der Kurve.
Please reduce your speed on the bend.
Der, die or das?
Geschwindigkeit is feminine: die Geschwindigkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Geschwindigkeit?
Geschwindigkeit is number 2,894 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 30 times per million words — about once every 33,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% 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
- 2,890messento measure
- 2,891das Stadionstadium
- 2,892direktedirect
- 2,893kostenlosefree (of charge)
- 2,894die Geschwindigkeitspeed
- 2,895Wahlenelections
- 2,896die Transparenztransparency
- 2,897bezüglichregarding, concerning
- 2,898erfordertrequires
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,894
- The most common German nouns#1,225
- German B1 vocabulary#932
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#409
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.