das Rezept
Meaning in English: recipe, prescription
False friend: Rezept is not “receipt”. It is a recipe or a prescription. A receipt is ein Kassenbon or eine Quittung. More false friends.
Example
Kannst du mir das Rezept für den Kuchen geben?
Can you give me the recipe for the cake?
Der, die or das?
Rezept is neuter: das Rezept. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Rezept?
Rezept is number 4,417 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,413jährlicheannual, yearly
- 4,414die Ferienholidays, vacation
- 4,415schlichtsimple, plain; simply
- 4,416damaligethen, of that time
- 4,417das Rezeptrecipe, prescription
- 4,418handelteacted, traded; was about
- 4,419sicherstellento ensure, to make sure
- 4,420das Orchesterorchestra
- 4,421starkesstrong
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,417
- The most common German nouns#1,923
- German A2 vocabulary#888
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#229
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.