German noun, neuter · CEFR B1
das Symbol
Meaning in English: symbol, icon
Spelled the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
Example
Klick einfach auf das Symbol oben rechts.
Just click the icon at the top right.
Der, die or das?
Symbol is neuter: das Symbol. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Symbol?
Symbol is number 4,882 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 16 times per million words — about once every 62,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% 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
- 4,878Formateformats
- 4,879agierento act, to operate
- 4,880vollständigencomplete, full
- 4,881Begriffeterms, concepts
- 4,882das Symbolsymbol, icon
- 4,883zentralescentral
- 4,884erlittensuffered
- 4,885Landwirtefarmers
- 4,886die Anordnungorder, instruction; arrangement
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,882
- The most common German nouns#2,145
- German B1 vocabulary#1,579
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#261
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.