German noun, feminine · CEFR B2

die Landeshauptstadt

Meaning in English: state capital

Rank 3,495 of 5,000noun · dieLevel B2
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Example

Wiesbaden ist die Landeshauptstadt von Hessen.

Wiesbaden is the state capital of Hesse.

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Landeshauptstadt is feminine: die Landeshauptstadt. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Landeshauptstadt?

Landeshauptstadt is number 3,495 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 24 times per million words — about once every 41,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 76% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.

Related words in the list

Landeshauptstadt is built from das Land (country; land; countryside) + die Hauptstadt (capital (city)).

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 3,491vergleichsweisecomparatively, relatively
  2. 3,492das Staatsministeriumstate ministry
  3. 3,493der Senatsenate
  4. 3,494führendenleading
  5. 3,495die Landeshauptstadtstate capital
  6. 3,496nahnear, close
  7. 3,497Plattformenplatforms
  8. 3,498künftigefuture
  9. 3,499die Baustelleconstruction site, roadworks

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