das Risiko
Meaning in English: risk
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Das Risiko ist mir zu hoch.
The risk is too high for me.
Der, die or das?
Risiko is neuter: das Risiko. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -o are das in 13 of 14 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Risiko in the top 5,000
These forms of Risiko are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Jede Operation hat Risiken.
Every operation carries risks.
How common is Risiko?
Risiko is number 1,321 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 69 times per million words — about once every 14,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 67% 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
- 1,317Punktenpoints (dative plural)
- 1,318die Lehreapprenticeship, teaching, lesson
- 1,319nahmtook
- 1,320die Tochterdaughter
- 1,321das Risikorisk
- 1,322die Planungplanning
- 1,323mitteilteannounced, informed
- 1,324behandelttreated, dealt with
- 1,325der Sohnson
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,321
- The most common German nouns#483
- German B1 vocabulary#396
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#58
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.