innovative
Meaning in English: innovative
This is a form of innovativ, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own — its other forms in the list are innovativen.
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Das Start-up hat eine innovative Idee.
The start-up has an innovative idea.
How common is innovative?
innovative is number 1,896 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 48 times per million words — about once every 21,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 70% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,892rechtzeitigin time, on time
- 1,893die Internetseitewebsite, web page
- 1,894Geschichtenstories
- 1,895Institutioneninstitutions
- 1,896innovativeinnovative
- 1,897angezeigtdisplayed, shown; reported (to police)
- 1,898welchemwhich (dative)
- 1,899ständigconstantly, all the time
- 1,900generellgenerally, in general
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,896
- The most common German adjectives#285
- German B2 vocabulary#288
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.