der Höhepunkt
Meaning in English: highlight, climax, peak
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Test my vocabularyExample
Der Höhepunkt der Reise war die Bootsfahrt.
The highlight of the trip was the boat ride.
Der, die or das?
Höhepunkt is masculine: der Höhepunkt. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Höhepunkt?
Höhepunkt is number 3,110 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 28 times per million words — about once every 36,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Höhepunkt is built from die Höhe (height; level, amount) + der Punkt (point, dot, full stop).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,106Arbeitsplätzejobs, workplaces
- 3,107Ereignisseevents
- 3,108britischeBritish
- 3,109keinemno one, none (dative)
- 3,110der Höhepunkthighlight, climax, peak
- 3,111optimaleoptimal, ideal
- 3,112gewohntused to, accustomed
- 3,113zweitersecond
- 3,114flexibelflexible
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,110
- The most common German nouns#1,305
- German B1 vocabulary#1,010
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#339
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.