die Wahrscheinlichkeit
Meaning in English: probability, likelihood
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Die Wahrscheinlichkeit für Regen liegt bei achtzig Prozent.
The chance of rain is eighty per cent.
Der, die or das?
Wahrscheinlichkeit is feminine: die Wahrscheinlichkeit. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -keit are die in 15 of 15 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wahrscheinlichkeit?
Wahrscheinlichkeit is number 4,171 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 20 times per million words — about once every 51,000 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.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,167der Innenministerinterior minister, home secretary
- 4,168der Moderatorpresenter, host
- 4,169der Transfertransfer
- 4,170übrigleft (over), remaining
- 4,171die Wahrscheinlichkeitprobability, likelihood
- 4,172der Mangellack, shortage, defect
- 4,173leidsorry (in "es tut mir leid")
- 4,174ambulantenoutpatient
- 4,175warntewarned
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,171
- The most common German nouns#1,806
- German B2 vocabulary#973
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#577
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.