die Mütze
Meaning in English: (woolly) hat, cap
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Clothes in German list.
Example
Setz dir eine Mütze auf, es schneit.
Put a hat on, it's snowing.
Der, die or das?
Mütze is feminine: die Mütze. 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 Mütze?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Mütze appears 2.6 times per million words — about once every 380,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
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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.