German adjective · CEFR B1
türkis
Meaning in English: turquoise
Not one of the 5,000 most common words in written German, but part of the core vocabulary in our Colours in German list.
Example
Das Wasser dort ist klar und türkis.
The water there is clear and turquoise.
How common is türkis?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, türkis appears 0.8 times per million words — about once every 1,200,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
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