German verb · CEFR B2

optimieren

Meaning in English: to optimise

Rank 4,095 of 5,000verbLevel B22 forms in the list
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Example

Wir wollen unsere Abläufe optimieren.

We want to optimise our processes.

Forms of optimieren in the top 5,000

German verbs change their ending with the person and tense, and each form is counted on its own. These forms of optimieren are also in the top 5,000:

optimiert#3,585
optimisedC1

Die Webseite wurde für Handys optimiert.
The website has been optimised for mobile phones.

How common is optimieren?

optimieren is number 4,095 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 49,000 words. Its most frequent form is optimiert (#3,585).

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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

  1. 4,091aktuellercurrent, up-to-date
  2. 4,092endento end
  3. 4,093haltehold, think, consider (I)
  4. 4,094verankertanchored, enshrined
  5. 4,095optimierento optimise
  6. 4,096Störungendisruptions, faults
  7. 4,097beinahealmost, nearly
  8. 4,098der Faktorfactor
  9. 4,099weitelong, wide, far

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