German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Leiter
Meaning in English: head, manager (der); ladder (die)
Example
Der Leiter der Schule hat uns begrüßt.
The head of the school welcomed us.
Der, die or das?
Leiter is masculine: der Leiter. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Leiter?
Leiter is number 1,372 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 67 times per million words — about once every 15,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,368selbstverständlichof course, naturally
- 1,369das Personalstaff, personnel
- 1,370mittelsby means of
- 1,371Teileparts, pieces
- 1,372der Leiterhead, manager (der); ladder (die)
- 1,373die Umgebungsurroundings, area
- 1,374die Partiegame, match
- 1,375empfehlento recommend
- 1,376die Nummernumber
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,372
- The most common German nouns#503
- German B1 vocabulary#413
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#141
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.