das Wort
Meaning in English: word
Almost the same as in English — one of the German words you already know.
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Was bedeutet dieses Wort auf Englisch?
What does this word mean in English?
Der, die or das?
Wort is neuter: das Wort. How to tell the gender from the ending.
Forms of Wort in the top 5,000
These forms of Wort are in the top 5,000 as well — plural and case forms are counted separately:
Mir fehlen die Worte.
I'm lost for words.
Mit anderen Worten: Wir sind zu spät.
In other words: we are too late.
How common is Wort?
Wort is number 1,169 of the 5,000 most common German words. In the texts the list is counted from it appears 77 times per million words — about once every 13,000 words.
Know every word down to this one and you recognise about 66% of the words in an ordinary German text. A1 means a beginner word, usually met in the first weeks of learning.
Related words in the list
Words built on Wort:
Next to it in the frequency list
- 1,165beträgtamounts to, is
- 1,166beteiligtinvolved, taking part
- 1,167versuchento try
- 1,168bliebstayed, remained
- 1,169das Wortword
- 1,170berichtetereported
- 1,171die Vergangenheitpast
- 1,172russischeRussian
- 1,173positivpositive
In these word lists
- The 5,000 most common German words#1,169
- The most common German nouns#419
- German A1 vocabulary#389
- The most common German neuter nouns (das)#52
Translations, levels and examples were written with AI help and are awaiting review by a native speaker — how the list was made.