die Stelle
Meaning in English: job, position; place, spot
Example
Sie hat eine neue Stelle in Frankfurt gefunden.
She has found a new job in Frankfurt.
Der, die or das?
Stelle is feminine: die Stelle. 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 Stelle?
Stelle is number 486 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 182 times per million words — about once every 5,500 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 58% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Stelle:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 482Tagendays (dative plural)
- 483könntencould (we/they/you)
- 484Jahresof the year (genitive)
- 485treffento meet; to hit
- 486die Stellejob, position; place, spot
- 487Möglichkeitenpossibilities, options
- 488vielleichtmaybe, perhaps
- 489nienever
- 490jeweiligenrespective
In these word lists
- The 500 most common German words#486
- The 1,000 most common German words#486
- The 5,000 most common German words#486
- The most common German nouns#116
- German A2 vocabulary#121
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#36
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.