Dump

[damp]

/[damp]/ noun

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The verdict

“Dump” is uncommon German (frequency #77,874 among 2,764 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,874
frequency rank, German
2,764
“D” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Kopie oder Auszug des Speicherinhaltes einer Datenbank oder dergleichen

Corpus desk

Index DE-dump · Dump · German

Dump · rank #77,874 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,874
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 2,764
  • PHOTO-FINISH Duce

Nearest frequency peer: Duce (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Dump“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Dump“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Dump
PropertyValue
HeadwordDump
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[damp]
Letters4
Frequency rank#77,874
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Dump“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Dumpfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Duce“ (#77,873), „Dschinn“ (#77,871), „egozentrisch“ (#77,877). Unter 2,764 „D“-Lemmata liegt „Dump“ bei #77,874. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Dump is uncommon German at frequency #77,874 among 2,764 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [damp]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Kopie oder Auszug des Speicherinhaltes einer Datenbank oder dergleichen".

No misspelling variants are generated for Dump in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Dump, spelled D-U-M-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Kopie oder Auszug des Speicherinhaltes einer Datenbank oder dergleichen

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Dump appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Diesen Dump kann man ausdrucken.

Synonyms

SpeicherauszugDatenbankauszugHauptspeicherauszugSpeicherausdruck

This word in other languages

dump(English)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Dump"?
"Dump" is spelled D-U-M-P. The IPA pronunciation is [damp].
What does "Dump" mean?
As a noun, "Dump" means: Kopie oder Auszug des Speicherinhaltes einer Datenbank oder dergleichen
How do you pronounce "Dump"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Dump" is [damp]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Dump" come from?
"Dump" is a German word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Dump", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Duce#77,873Elze#77,896cima#77,811chou#77,810

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list