die Variante
Meaning in English: variant, version
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Test my vocabularyExample
Diese Variante gefällt mir besser.
I like this version better.
Der, die or das?
Variante is feminine: die Variante. 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.
Forms of Variante in the top 5,000
These forms of Variante are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Das Rezept gibt es in zwei Varianten.
The recipe comes in two versions.
How common is Variante?
Variante is number 2,785 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 32 times per million words — about once every 31,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 74% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 2,781späterenlater
- 2,782Haushaltehouseholds
- 2,783Krankheitendiseases, illnesses
- 2,784schönenbeautiful, nice
- 2,785die Variantevariant, version
- 2,786ersetzenreplace
- 2,787lokalelocal
- 2,788Vorsitzenderchairman, chair
- 2,789der BundesratFederal Council (upper house)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#2,785
- The most common German nouns#1,166
- German B2 vocabulary#539
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#387
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.