Vermögen
Vermögen is a German noun meaning ability, capacity. It is the 1,027th most common word in German, which puts it at CEFR level A2. It turns up in about 1 in 463 sentences of real German prose.
1,027
rank
of 5,000
A2
CEFR level
by frequency
1 in 463
sentences
contain it
76.8%
running total
of a book covered
Running total is cumulative: knowing Vermögen and every German word above it covers 76.8% of the running words in a real book.
Is Vermögen worth learning now?
Vermögen sits at rank 1,027, past the first thousand words that cover 76.55% of a book on their own. It is a A2 word: worth learning once the commonest thousand are secure, and you will meet it often enough at that point to make it stick.
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
- Bescheid #1,023 - notification, information
- einzeln #1,024 - single
- Hunger #1,025 - hunger
- Treppe #1,026 - stairs
- weisen #1,028 - to indicate
- geliebt #1,029 - loved
- dadurch #1,030 - through it, through that
- rauchen #1,031 - to smoke, give off smoke
See all 5,000 most common German words, or look up any of the 20,029 German words Einlang ranks.
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 Vermögen 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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