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donder

verb, noun

donder is spelled D-O-N-D-E-R: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, donder means “Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in donder?

Letters6: D-O-N-D-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 69 million words; the 262,293rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is donder?

Donder appears about once in every 69 million words in written English, the 262,293rd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce donder?

    Donder has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What rhymes with donder?

    No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as donder.

    Spelled with the same letters in another order: nodder.

    Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

    Forms of donder

    • donders present, singular, he/she/it, plural
    • dondering participle, present
    • dondered participle, past

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    What does donder mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    verb

    1. 1

      Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”).

    2. 2

      slangTo beat up, to thrash.

    noun

    1. 1

      Alternative form of daunder (“stroll”).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Where does donder come from?

    See daunder.

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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