die Lippe
Meaning in English: lip
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Body parts in German list.
Example
Im Winter springt mir oft die Lippe auf.
In winter my lip often gets chapped.
Der, die or das?
Lippe is feminine: die Lippe. 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 Lippe?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Lippe appears 4.2 times per million words — about once every 240,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.