German adjective · CEFR A2
violett
Meaning in English: violet, purple
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
Am Abend war der Himmel fast violett.
In the evening the sky was almost violet.
How common is violett?
In the news and web texts the list is counted from, violett appears 1.0 time per million words — about once every 970,000 words. That is below the cut-off: the last of the top 5,000 appears about 16 times per million.
A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
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