die Spannung
Meaning in English: suspense, tension, voltage
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Der Krimi ist voller Spannung.
The crime novel is full of suspense.
Der, die or das?
Spannung is feminine: die Spannung. 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 Spannung?
Spannung is number 4,250 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% 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
- 4,246der Empfangreception, signal
- 4,247der Krebscancer, crab
- 4,248der Ersatzreplacement, substitute
- 4,249die Berufsausbildungvocational training
- 4,250die Spannungsuspense, tension, voltage
- 4,251drininside, in it (colloquial)
- 4,252herausragendeoutstanding
- 4,253versichertinsured, assured
- 4,254fügteadded (fügte … hinzu)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,250
- The most common German nouns#1,846
- German B2 vocabulary#998
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#592
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.