die Mission
Meaning in English: mission
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Unsere Mission ist es, Kindern das Lesen beizubringen.
Our mission is to teach children to read.
Der, die or das?
Mission is feminine: die Mission. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ion are die in 46 of 47 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Mission?
Mission is number 3,842 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 22 times per million words — about once every 46,000 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,838deckento cover, to set (the table)
- 3,839mietento rent
- 3,840der Ruhestandretirement
- 3,841der Rufreputation, call
- 3,842die Missionmission
- 3,843Fortschritteprogress
- 3,844der Käuferbuyer, purchaser
- 3,845nächstesnext (neuter)
- 3,846die Armutpoverty
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,842
- The most common German nouns#1,657
- German B2 vocabulary#856
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#534
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.