landevslateWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: lande is a verb, late is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“lande” is a verb and “late” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,082
“lande” frequency rank
#14,348
“late” frequency rank
21430
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature lande late
Definition 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs landen spät

Letter map: lande vs late

Shared letters muted; letters that set lande and late apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
lande
4 ch
late

Grammar separator: lande vs late

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: lande is averb and lateanadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 21430, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

lande is recorded at frequency rank #7,082, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈlandə]. late is at rank #14,348, tagged as anadj, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 21430, this pair ranks #1,886,344 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of lande vs late

Shared letters: ael. Private to "lande": dn. Private to "late": t.

"lande" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "late" · 4 letters · shape CVCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • landealnde · landde · laned · lannde · llande · lnade
  • latelaet · llate · ltae

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "lande" and "late" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "lande" is a verb and "late" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "lande" or "late" show up more?
"lande" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,082 in our German list, against #14,348 for "late". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "lande" and "late". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "lande" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "late" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,886,344 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "lande" and "late" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "late vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,886,344 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list