German noun, feminine · CEFR B1
die Spitze
Meaning in English: top, tip, peak; lace
Example
Nach dem Sieg steht das Team an der Spitze.
After the win the team is at the top.
Der, die or das?
Spitze is feminine: die Spitze. 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 Spitze?
Spitze is number 2,019 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 45 times per million words — about once every 22,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 71% 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
- 2,015das Quartalquarter (of a year)
- 2,016unterschiedlichdifferent, varying
- 2,017Diensteservices
- 2,018Rahmenbedingungengeneral conditions, framework
- 2,019die Spitzetop, tip, peak; lace
- 2,020die Traditiontradition
- 2,021aussehento look, to appear
- 2,022die Veröffentlichungpublication, release
- 2,023Mitgliedernmembers (dative plural)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,019
- The most common German nouns#809
- German B1 vocabulary#645
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#266
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.