optimal
Meaning in English: optimal, ideal
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Der Zeitpunkt ist gerade nicht optimal.
The timing isn't ideal right now.
Forms of optimal in the top 5,000
These forms of optimal are in the top 5,000 as well — German adds endings for gender, case and number:
Das ist die optimale Lösung für uns.
That's the ideal solution for us.
How common is optimal?
optimal is number 2,285 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 40 times per million words — about once every 25,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 72% 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
- 2,281lokalenlocal (inflected)
- 2,282Werkeworks; plants, factories
- 2,283gebetenasked, requested
- 2,284Angehörigerelatives, family members
- 2,285optimaloptimal, ideal
- 2,286weshalbwhy; which is why
- 2,287die Staffelseason (TV); relay team
- 2,288engagiertcommitted, dedicated; involved
- 2,289die Ordnungorder, tidiness
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,285
- The most common German adjectives#342
- German B2 vocabulary#396
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.