Friesland
[ˈfʁiːsˌlant]
The verdict
“Friesland” has 14 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #30,063. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,063
- frequency rank, German
- 45,736
- “F” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Landschaft an der Nordseeküste in den Niederlanden, Deutschland und Dänemark, die nach den Friesen benannt ist
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Friesland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈfʁiːsˌlant] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #30,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Friesland” sits in German frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Friesland (IPA [ˈfʁiːsˌlant]), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #30,063 among 45,736 “F” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Friesland, with forms such as "ffriesland", "firesland", and "freisland". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Freiland", "Friedland", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented 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 Friesland, spelled F-R-I-E-S-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Landschaft an der Nordseeküste in den Niederlanden, Deutschland und Dänemark, die nach den Friesen benannt ist
- 2Landkreis im Nordwesten von Niedersachsen
- 3Provinz im Norden der Niederlande
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ffriesland
- firesland
- freisland
- frielsand
- friesalnd
- friesladn
- frieslandd
- frieslannd
- frieslland
- frieslnad
- friessland
- friseland
- frriesland
- rfiesland
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Friesland - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 “Friesland”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is F-R-I-E-S-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈfʁiːsˌlant] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Freiland” - see the side-by-side comparison. Friesland vs Freiland
- Browse more German words and confusable pairs in the same reference. German words
Same frequency band
Data Source
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.