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Luxembourger

/ˈlʌksəmˌbɝɡɚ/noun

Luxembourger is a noun meaning “A person from the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or of Luxembourgish descent” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-U-X-E-M-B-O-U-R-G-E-R, and it appears about once in every 41 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of Luxembourger is Luxembourgers.

What does Luxembourger mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A person from the independent Grand Duchy of Luxembourg or of Luxembourgish descent.

  2. 2

    An inhabitant of the former duchy (originally county) of Luxembourg (originally Letzeburg)

  3. 3

    An inhabitant of the Belgian province of Luxembourg.

  4. 4

    An inhabitant of the city of Luxembourg, the capital of all the above territories.

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

How do you pronounce Luxembourger?

  • US /ˈlʌksəmˌbɝɡɚ/
  • UK /ˈlʌksəmˌbɜːɡə/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Luxembourger.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of Luxembourger

  • Luxembourgers plural
  • Luxemburger

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

How common is Luxembourger?

Luxembourger appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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).

Luxembourger in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense person from Luxembourg:

LanguageWords
FrenchLuxembourgeois, Luxembourgeoise
GermanLuxemburger, Luxemburgerin, Lützelburger
Portugueseluxemburguês
Spanishluxemburgués, luxemburguesa

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Luxembourger come from?

From Luxembourg + -er.

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