German noun, feminine · CEFR A2
die Haut
Meaning in English: skin
Example
Im Winter wird meine Haut sehr trocken.
My skin gets very dry in winter.
Der, die or das?
Haut is feminine: die Haut. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Haut?
Haut is number 2,269 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,265überzeugento convince, to persuade
- 2,266die Verordnungregulation, ordinance; prescription
- 2,267das Einkommenincome
- 2,268die Informatikcomputer science
- 2,269die Hautskin
- 2,270höchstehighest, top (inflected)
- 2,271getötetkilled
- 2,272überraschendsurprising, unexpectedly
- 2,273vielerof many (genitive)
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- The 5,000 most common German words#2,269
- The most common German nouns#939
- German A2 vocabulary#525
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#308
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.