German verb · CEFR B2
lautet
Meaning in English: is, reads (e.g. a name)
This is a form of lauten, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
Wie lautet deine neue Adresse?
What is your new address?
How common is lautet?
lautet is number 2,442 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 37 times per million words — about once every 27,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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
- 2,438belegttaken, occupied; proven
- 2,439Bestimmungenregulations, provisions
- 2,440verstehtunderstands
- 2,441kündigtequit, cancelled (past)
- 2,442lautetis, reads (e.g. a name)
- 2,443die Mathematikmathematics
- 2,444Erwachsenenadults
- 2,445die Justizjudiciary, justice system
- 2,446bezahltpaid
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