Basutoland
[baˈzuːtoˌlant]
The verdict
“Basutoland” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - britische Kronkolonie im südlichen Afrika (1868–1966), Vorgänger von Lesotho
Corpus desk
Index DE-basutoland · Basutoland · German
Basutoland · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Basutoland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [baˈzuːtoˌlant] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Basutoland“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Basutoland is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [baˈzuːtoˌlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "britische Kronkolonie im südlichen Afrika (1868–1966), Vorgänger von Lesotho".
Basutoland doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is Basutoland, spelled B-A-S-U-T-O-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1britische Kronkolonie im südlichen Afrika (1868–1966), Vorgänger von Lesotho
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Basutoland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Wenn es um die Beurteilung afrikanischer Politiker wie den Premierminister von Basutoland, Leabua Jonathan, ging, war er sich immer ‚bewusst, dass die Perspektive und Moral der Eingeborenen in politischen Angelegenheiten wie auch in anderen sich von den unseren unterscheiden.‘“
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.