der Sprecher
Meaning in English: spokesman, speaker
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Ein Sprecher der Bahn entschuldigte sich für die Verspätung.
A rail spokesman apologised for the delay.
Der, die or das?
Sprecher is masculine: der Sprecher. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Sprecher?
Sprecher is number 1,315 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. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
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In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,315
- The most common German nouns#479
- German B2 vocabulary#175
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#136
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.