Rollmops
German, noun[ˈʁɔlˌmɔps]
Rollmops is spelled R-O-L-L-M-O-P-S (8 letters) and appears about once in every 10 million words in written German, the 168,023rd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Rollmops is a German masculine noun meaning “rollmop (fillet of herring, rolled and flavoured with sliced onion and spices then pickled in brine)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “aufgerollter saurer Hering mit Gewürzgurke und Zwiebelringen darin”.
What does Rollmops mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinerollmop (fillet of herring, rolled and flavoured with sliced onion and spices then pickled in brine)
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. aufgerollter saurer Hering mit Gewürzgurke und Zwiebelringen darin
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Rollmops
- Rollmopses genitive
- Rollmöpse plural
- Rollmopse dative singular
- Rollmöpsen dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Rollmops?
- [ˈʁɔlˌmɔps]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is Rollmops in German?
Rollmops appears about once in every 10 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).