der Vorsprung
Meaning in English: lead, head start
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Mit zwei Toren Vorsprung ging es in die Pause.
They went into half-time with a two-goal lead.
Der, die or das?
Vorsprung is masculine: der Vorsprung. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -ung are usually die (224 of 226 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Vorsprung?
Vorsprung is number 4,012 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 21 times per million words — about once every 48,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. B2 means an upper-intermediate word, common in news and work.
Related words in the list
Vorsprung is built from der Sprung (jump, leap; crack).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,008das Modulmodule
- 4,009langfristigelong-term
- 4,010binnenwithin
- 4,011betreuento look after, to supervise
- 4,012der Vorsprunglead, head start
- 4,013die Rechtsgrundlagelegal basis
- 4,014die Performanceperformance
- 4,015kmkm (kilometre)
- 4,016der Aspektaspect
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,012
- The most common German nouns#1,730
- German B2 vocabulary#916
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#440
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.