Doppelbuchstabe
German, noun[ˈdɔpl̩ˌbuːxʃtaːbə]
Doppelbuchstabe is spelled D-O-P-P-E-L-B-U-C-H-S-T-A-B-E (15 letters) and appears about once in every 41 million words in written German, the 381,294th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Doppelbuchstabe is a German masculine noun meaning “homogeneous digraph, double letter, doubled letter” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Doppelbuchstabe mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinehomogeneous digraph, double letter, doubled letter
- 2
masculineheterogeneous digraph
- 3
datedmasculineligature
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Doppelbuchstabe
- Doppelbuchstabens genitive
- Doppelbuchstaben genitive
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Doppelbuchstabe?
- [ˈdɔpl̩ˌbuːxʃtaːbə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Doppelbuchstabe in German?
Doppelbuchstabe appears about once in every 41 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).