die Sicherung
Meaning in English: fuse; backup; securing
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Die Sicherung ist schon wieder rausgeflogen.
The fuse has blown again.
Der, die or das?
Sicherung is feminine: die Sicherung. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -ung are die in 224 of 226 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sicherung?
Sicherung is number 3,209 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 27 times per million words — about once every 37,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 75% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 3,205der Kerncore, pip, kernel
- 3,206musstmust, have to (you, informal)
- 3,207das Blutblood
- 3,208der Berateradviser, consultant
- 3,209die Sicherungfuse; backup; securing
- 3,210das Fleischmeat
- 3,211das Jubiläumanniversary, jubilee
- 3,212die Stationstation, stop; ward
- 3,213einzigenonly, single (inflected)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,209
- The most common German nouns#1,355
- German B2 vocabulary#663
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#449
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.