Dortmund
"dortmund" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Dortmund” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #17,350. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,350
- frequency rank, English
- 26,416
- “D” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A major city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Dortmund |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,350 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Dortmund” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around Dortmund, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #17,350 among 26,416 “D” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A major city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for Dortmund, with forms such as "ddortmund", "dormtund", and "dorrtmund". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Dortmund. The correct English form is Dortmund, spelled D-O-R-T-M-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1A major city in North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Dortmund.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ddortmund
- dormtund
- dorrtmund
- dortmmund
- dortmnud
- dortmudn
- dortmundd
- dortmunnd
- dorttmund
- dortumnd
- dotrmund
- drotmund
- odrtmund
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Dortmund - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Dortmund”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-R-T-M-U-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.