German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Länge
Meaning in English: length
Example
Welche Länge hat das Seil?
How long is the rope?
Der, die or das?
Länge is feminine: die Länge. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Länge?
Länge is number 3,659 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 23 times per million words — about once every 43,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% 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
- 3,655französischeFrench
- 3,656der Siegerwinner
- 3,657stehendenstanding, stationary
- 3,658kochento cook; to boil
- 3,659die Längelength
- 3,660AustralienAustralia
- 3,661abgesehenapart (from), except (for)
- 3,662erkenntrecognises; realises
- 3,663Streckenroutes, distances, stretches
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,659
- The most common German nouns#1,567
- German B1 vocabulary#1,175
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#514
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.