German noun, masculine · CEFR B1
der Wechsel
Meaning in English: change, switch
Example
Der Wechsel zur neuen Firma war eine gute Idee.
Switching to the new company was a good idea.
Der, die or das?
Wechsel is masculine: der Wechsel. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wechsel?
Wechsel is number 1,473 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 63 times per million words — about once every 16,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 68% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,469steigento rise, to climb, to get (in/on)
- 1,470teilnehmendenparticipating
- 1,471der Zweckpurpose
- 1,472das Rennenrace
- 1,473der Wechselchange, switch
- 1,474öffentlichpublic, publicly
- 1,475möglicherweisepossibly, perhaps
- 1,476ernstserious, seriously
- 1,477erfüllento fulfil, to meet (requirements)
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,473
- The most common German nouns#557
- German B1 vocabulary#446
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#156
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.