German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
Raketen
Meaning in English: rockets, missiles
This is a form of Rakete, which is not in the top 5,000 on its own.
Example
An Silvester steigen überall bunte Raketen auf.
On New Year's Eve colourful rockets go up everywhere.
How common is Raketen?
Raketen is number 4,750 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 17 times per million words — about once every 59,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,746Kapazitätencapacities
- 4,747Studiengängendegree programmes (dative plural)
- 4,748künstlicherartificial
- 4,749akademischenacademic
- 4,750Raketenrockets, missiles
- 4,751der Fachbereichdepartment, field
- 4,752verringernto reduce, to decrease
- 4,753derartigesuch, of this kind
- 4,754gefasstcaught, composed; taken (decision)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,750
- The most common German nouns#2,081
- German B1 vocabulary#1,546
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