German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Rauch
Meaning in English: smoke
Example
Aus der Küche kam plötzlich dichter Rauch.
Suddenly thick smoke came out of the kitchen.
Der, die or das?
Rauch is masculine: der Rauch. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rauch?
Rauch is number 4,942 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 63,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 79% 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
- 4,938Abteilungendepartments
- 4,939die Aufsichtsupervision, oversight
- 4,940Werkzeugetools
- 4,941buntencolourful
- 4,942der Rauchsmoke
- 4,943das Comebackcomeback
- 4,944die Löschungdeletion, erasure
- 4,945womitwith what, with which
- 4,946die Lückegap
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- The 5,000 most common German words#4,942
- The most common German nouns#2,171
- German B1 vocabulary#1,596
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#536
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