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Natur

Natur is a German noun meaning nature (the natural world). It is the 879th most common word in German, which puts it at CEFR level A1. It turns up in about 1 in 1,031 sentences of real German prose.

879

rank

of 5,000

A1

CEFR level

by frequency

1 in 1,031

sentences

contain it

75.5%

running total

of a book covered

Running total is cumulative: knowing Natur and every German word above it covers 75.5% of the running words in a real book.

Is Natur worth learning now?

Yes - Natur is inside the first thousand German words, and those thousand cover 76.55% of the prose in a real book and 84.27% of everyday speech. Words this common are worth far more study time than anything further down the list.

Frequency is the honest guide to order, not to method. A word learned from a list on its own fades; the same word met inside a sentence you wanted to read stays. Check a German text against the CEFR bands to see whether what you are reading is at your level.

German words of the same frequency

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Where this comes from

The rank is measured, not copied: 151 million words of subtitle dialogue for how German is spoken, and 48 public-domain books for how it is written. Conjugations and plurals count towards the word they belong to, so Natur is ranked as a word rather than as a spelling. The meaning and part of speech come from Wiktionary. Generated 2026-07-27.

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