German noun, neuter · CEFR A1

das Wort

Meaning in English: word

Rank 1,169 of 5,000noun · dasLevel A13 forms in the list

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Was bedeutet dieses Wort auf Englisch?

What does this word mean in English?

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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:

Worte#2,099
words (connected speech)B1

Mir fehlen die Worte.
I'm lost for words.

Worten#2,417
words (dative plural)B1

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. 1,165beträgtamounts to, is
  2. 1,166beteiligtinvolved, taking part
  3. 1,167versuchento try
  4. 1,168bliebstayed, remained
  5. 1,169das Wortword
  6. 1,170berichtetereported
  7. 1,171die Vergangenheitpast
  8. 1,172russischeRussian
  9. 1,173positivpositive

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