Drittland
[ˈdʁɪtˌlant]
The verdict
“Drittland” is uncommon German (frequency #86,384 among 45,632 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,384
- frequency rank, German
- 45,632
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Staat, der nicht Teil/Vertragspartei in einem Vertrag zwischen zwei anderen Staaten oder einer Staatengruppe (beispielsweise der Europäischen Union) ist; oft im Zusammenhang mit Migration, Flüchtli...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Drittland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈdʁɪtˌlant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #86,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Drittland” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Drittland is uncommon German at frequency #86,384 among 45,632 “D” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈdʁɪtˌlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Staat, der nicht Teil/Vertragspartei in einem Vertrag zwischen zwei anderen Staaten oder einer Staatengruppe (beispielsweise der Europäischen Union) ist; oft im Zusammenhang mit Migration, Flüchtli...".
No misspelling variants are generated for Drittland in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Drittland, spelled D-R-I-T-T-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Staat, der nicht Teil/Vertragspartei in einem Vertrag zwischen zwei anderen Staaten oder einer Staatengruppe (beispielsweise der Europäischen Union) ist; oft im Zusammenhang mit Migration, Flüchtlingen, Asyl gebraucht
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Drittland”
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- The one correct German spelling is D-R-I-T-T-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.