das Motto
Meaning in English: motto, theme
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Die Party steht unter dem Motto „Achtziger“.
The party has an eighties theme.
Der, die or das?
Motto is neuter: das Motto. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Motto?
Motto is number 1,256 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 73 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% 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
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,256
- The most common German nouns#454
- German B2 vocabulary#161
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#56
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.