der Weltmeister
Meaning in English: world champion
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Er war zweimal Weltmeister im Schwimmen.
He was world swimming champion twice.
Der, die or das?
Weltmeister is masculine: der Weltmeister. That fits the pattern — nouns ending in -er are der in 126 of 160 cases in the list. How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Weltmeister?
Weltmeister is number 4,404 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 18 times per million words — about once every 54,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 78% of the words in an ordinary German text. B1 means an intermediate word, typical of the B1 exam.
Related words in the list
Weltmeister is built from die Welt (world) + der Meister (master (craftsman); champion).
Next to it in the frequency list
- 4,400Umständecircumstances; trouble, fuss
- 4,401Bedürfnissenneeds
- 4,402das Zertifikatcertificate
- 4,403die Satzungstatutes, bylaws
- 4,404der Weltmeisterworld champion
- 4,405folgtenfollowed
- 4,406stellvertretendedeputy, acting
- 4,407trockendry
- 4,408oberstetop, highest, supreme
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#4,404
- The most common German nouns#1,918
- German B1 vocabulary#1,437
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#483
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.