die Wand
Meaning in English: wall
False friend: Wand is not “wand”. It is a wall inside a building. A magic wand is ein Zauberstab. More false friends.
Example
Das Bild hängt schief an der Wand.
The picture is hanging crooked on the wall.
Der, die or das?
Wand is feminine: die Wand. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wand?
Wand is number 4,265 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 19 times per million words — about once every 52,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 77% of the words in an ordinary German text. A2 means an elementary word, usually learned in the first year.
Related words in the list
Words built on Wand:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,261einkaufento shop, to go shopping
- 4,262die Verfassungconstitution, condition
- 4,263vermiedenavoided
- 4,264die Waregoods, merchandise
- 4,265die Wandwall
- 4,266aufzubauento build up, to set up (zu-inf.)
- 4,267unglaublichunbelievable, incredible
- 4,268erlittsuffered
- 4,269nullzero
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,265
- The most common German nouns#1,852
- German A2 vocabulary#877
- The most common German feminine nouns (die)#597
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.