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Laplander

noun

Laplander is spelled L-A-P-L-A-N-D-E-R: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, Laplander means “A native or inhabitant of Swedish historical province Lapland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of Laplander is Laplanders.

How many letters and syllables are in Laplander?

Letters9: L-A-P-L-A-N-D-E-R
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th 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 Laplander?

Laplander appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 Laplander

  • Laplanders plural

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

What does Laplander mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A native or inhabitant of Swedish historical province Lapland

  2. 2

    A native or inhabitant of Finnish historical province Lapland

  3. 3

    derogatoryproscribedA Sami.

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

Where does Laplander come from?

From Lapland + -er.

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

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