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Dortmunder

noun

Dortmunder is spelled D-O-R-T-M-U-N-D-E-R: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Dortmunder means “A native or inhabitant of the city of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Dortmunder is Dortmunders.

How many letters and syllables are in Dortmunder?

Letters10: D-O-R-T-M-U-N-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 50 million words; the 220,118th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is Dortmunder?

Dortmunder appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th 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).

Forms of Dortmunder

  • Dortmunders plural

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

What does Dortmunder mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of the city of Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

  2. 2

    A kind of pale lager beer.

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

Where does Dortmunder come from?

Borrowed from German, or from Dortmund + -er.

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

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