How to say "level" in Japanese

• レベルJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounThe loanword for 'level' as a degree, grade or class — skill, difficulty, prices, sound. Usually the word you want when 'level' means how high something sits on a scale.
  国際こくさいレベルの運動うんどう選手せんしゅになるためには、毎日まいにち練習れんしゅうしなければならない。↗

  One must practice every day in order to become a world-class athlete.
• 水準すいじゅんJLPT N3approx.Common
  nounCovers 'level' as a standard or benchmark that things are measured against, typical of discussion of economic or social conditions; not the word for skill or game levels.
  君きみの仕事しごとは期待きたいしている水準すいじゅんに達たっしていない。↗

  Your work comes short of the expected standard.
• 水平すいへいJLPT N2approx.Common
  na-adjective, no-adjectiveFor the physical sense of 'level': horizontal, at the same height throughout, as of a surface, line or road. It describes orientation, not degree, so it never replaces レベル for skill or difficulty.
  水みずは水平すいへいになろうとする。↗

  Water tries to find its own level.
• 平らたいらJLPT N3approx.Common
  na-adjectiveCovers 'level' meaning flat, even and smooth — a level stretch of ground, a flattened surface. The emphasis is on evenness rather than horizontality, and it has nothing to do with degrees or standards.
  あの山やまの頂上ちょうじょうは平たいらだ。↗

  The top of that mountain is flat.
• 階層かいそうJLPT N1approx.Common
  nounFor 'level' as one layer or stratum in a hierarchy — classes of society, tiers of an organization or structure. Choose it when levels are stacked in layers, not when measuring how high something is.
  階層かいそう問題もんだいに対たいする、消費しょうひ社会しゃかい論ろんの著ちょである。↗

  It is a literary work confronting the class problem of a consumer society.

Use 「レベル」 for degree or grade (skill, difficulty), 水準 for a standard or benchmark level in statistics and economics, 水平 for horizontal levelness, 「平ら」 for flat even surfaces, and 階層 for layers or strata in a hierarchy.

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• レベルlevel
• 水準すいじゅんlevel
• 水平すいへいhorizontal
• 平らたいらflat
• 階層かいそうclass
• 平たいひらたいflat
• 切り崩すきりくずすto level (earth)
• 平準へいじゅんlevel
• 大台おおだい(major) mark
• 坑道こうどうtunnel
• 突き崩すつきくずすto knock down
• 崩すくずすto destroy
• 品格ひんかくdignity
• 高さたかさheight
• 値ちlevel
• フラットflat
• 平坦へいたんeven
• 平べったいひらべったいflat
• 坦々たんたんlevel
• 平らかたいらかlevel
• 平々へいへいlevel
• 水平器すいへいきlevel
• 水準器すいじゅんきspirit level
• 平ったいひらったいflat
• 間歩まぶtunnel
• 域いきregion
• 水盛りみずもり(using a) level
• 段階だんかいlevel
• 段だんgrade
• 次元じげんperspective
• 一歩いっぽlevel
• 級きゅうclass
• 品ほんlevel
• ノルムstandard
• 浴びせかけるあびせかけるto inundate (with questions)
• 線せんlevel
• 台だいlevel (e.g. price level)
• ステージstage
• 位くらいgrade (of quality, etc.)