German noun, masculine · CEFR B2

der Verdacht

Meaning in English: suspicion

Rank 2,680 of 5,000noun · derLevel B2

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Example

Die Polizei hat schon einen Verdacht.
The police already have a suspicion.

Der, die or das?

Verdacht is masculine: der Verdacht. How to tell the gender from the ending.

How common is Verdacht?

Verdacht is number 2,680 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 33 times per million words — about once every 30,000 words.

Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 73% 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

2,676wertvollevaluable
2,677die Botschaftembassy; message
2,678politischpolitical, politically
2,679jungyoung
2,680der Verdachtsuspicion
2,681das Forumforum
2,682die Vorlagetemplate, model; submission
2,683gebliebenstayed, remained
2,684die Inselisland

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The 5,000 most common German words#2,680
The most common German nouns#1,124
German B2 vocabulary#505
The most common German masculine nouns (der)#299

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