German noun, masculine · CEFR B2
der Rückstand
Meaning in English: deficit, arrears, backlog
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Trotz Rückstand hat unser Team noch gewonnen.
Despite being behind, our team still won.
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Rückstand is masculine: der Rückstand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rückstand?
Rückstand is number 4,131 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 50,000 words.
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
- 4,127Insekteninsects
- 4,128entsprechenderappropriate, corresponding
- 4,129die Heizungheating, radiator
- 4,130bedienento serve, to operate
- 4,131der Rückstanddeficit, arrears, backlog
- 4,132österreichischeAustrian
- 4,133demokratischendemocratic
- 4,134gesunkenfallen, sunk
- 4,135das Abenteueradventure
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,131
- The most common German nouns#1,789
- German B2 vocabulary#964
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#459
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.