der Wohnraum
Meaning in English: housing, living space
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In Großstädten fehlt bezahlbarer Wohnraum.
Big cities lack affordable housing.
Der, die or das?
Wohnraum is masculine: der Wohnraum. Careful: it is an exception. Nouns ending in -um are usually das (17 of 24 in the list). How to tell the gender from the ending.
How common is Wohnraum?
Wohnraum is number 3,929 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 47,000 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
- 3,925Feuerwehrenfire brigades
- 3,926VereintenUnited (as in United Nations)
- 3,927Vertreternrepresentatives (dative)
- 3,928beurteilento judge, to assess
- 3,929der Wohnraumhousing, living space
- 3,930verpasstmissed
- 3,931beidesboth (things)
- 3,932definitivdefinitely
- 3,933günstigencheap, favourable
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#3,929
- The most common German nouns#1,700
- German B2 vocabulary#886
- The most common German masculine nouns (der)#433
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.