German noun, feminine · CEFR B2
die Lücke
Meaning in English: gap
Example
Im Lebenslauf hat sie eine Lücke von einem Jahr.
She has a one-year gap in her CV.
Der, die or das?
Lücke is feminine: die Lücke. 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 Lücke?
Lücke is number 4,946 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,942der Rauchsmoke
- 4,943das Comebackcomeback
- 4,944die Löschungdeletion, erasure
- 4,945womitwith what, with which
- 4,946die Lückegap
- 4,947der Ringring
- 4,948die Tagesordnungagenda
- 4,949arbeitework (1st person)
- 4,950stiegenrose, climbed (past plural)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,946
- The most common German nouns#2,174
- German B2 vocabulary#1,222
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#701
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.