German noun, feminine · CEFR A2

die Regel

Meaning in English: rule

Rank 500 of 5,000noun · dieLevel A22 forms in the list
Learn this word

Add die Regel and its 1 form to your reviews. Progress stays in this browser.

Test my vocabulary

Example

In der Regel frühstücke ich um sieben.

As a rule, I have breakfast at seven.

Der, die or das?

Regel is feminine: die Regel. How to tell the gender from the ending.

Forms of Regel in the top 5,000

These forms of Regel are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:

Regeln#1,029
rulesA2

Kennst du die Regeln von diesem Spiel?
Do you know the rules of this game?

How common is Regel?

Regel is number 500 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 179 times per million words — about once every 5,600 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.

Next to it in the frequency list

  1. 496gleichzeitigat the same time, simultaneous
  2. 497die Situationsituation
  3. 498zahlreichenumerous, many
  4. 499entwickeltdeveloped; develops
  5. 500die Regelrule
  6. 501das Wasserwater
  7. 502weitfar, wide
  8. 503die Personperson
  9. 504erreichenreach, achieve

In these word lists

Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.