rottweiler
/ˈɹɒtvaɪlə(ɹ)/noun
rottweiler is spelled R-O-T-T-W-E-I-L-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is rottweiller: about 90 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 154 of all searches for the word. Rottweiler is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Rottweiler”. The plural of rottweiler is rottweilers.
How many letters and syllables are in rottweiler?
| Letters | 10: R-O-T-T-W-E-I-L-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,633rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, rottweiller, about 90 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell rottweiler?
Rottweiler is spelled R-O-T-T-W-E-I-L-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 153 of the searches for rottweiler in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is rottweiler?
Rottweiler appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,633rd 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 rottweiler?
- /ˈɹɒtvaɪlə(ɹ)/
- /ˈɹɒtwaɪlə(ɹ)/
Rottweiler has 3 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Rottweiler.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of rottweiler
- rottweilers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does rottweiler mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Rottweiler.
noun
- 1
A very large muscular breed of dog of German origin with black fur and tanned markings.
- 2
A very aggressive or short-tempered person.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Rottweiler in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense breed of dog:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | rottweiler |
| German | Rottweiler |
| Portuguese | rottweiler |
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 rottweiler come from?
Borrowed from German Rottweiler.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).