die Spinne
Meaning in English: spider
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Animals in German list.
Example
In der Ecke hängt eine Spinne.
There's a spider hanging in the corner.
Der, die or das?
Spinne is feminine: die Spinne. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -e are die in 170 of 193 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Spinne?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, Spinne appears 1.8 times per million words — about once every 570,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.