Gastland
[ˈɡastˌlant]
The verdict
“Gastland” is uncommon German (frequency #53,709 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,709
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Land, das bei einer internationalen Veranstaltung (z.B. einer Messe) zu Gast ist und sich besonders präsentiert
Corpus desk
Index DE-gastland · Gastland · German
Gastland · rank #53,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,709
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Gaus
Nearest frequency peer: Gaus (+1 rank slots)
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.
Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Gastland“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Furche
Furche
46,296 corpus weight
- fünffache
fünffache
46,294 corpus weight
- Gastland
Gastland
46,292 corpus weight
- Gaus
Gaus
46,291 corpus weight
- Geburtshelf…
Geburtshelfer
46,289 corpus weight
- Gebälk
Gebälk
46,288 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gastland“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gastland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡastˌlant] |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #53,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gastland“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gastland is uncommon German at frequency #53,709 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈɡastˌlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for Gastland in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 Gastland, spelled G-A-S-T-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Land, das bei einer internationalen Veranstaltung (z.B. einer Messe) zu Gast ist und sich besonders präsentiert
- 2das Land, in dem sich ein Ausländer als Besucher (für kurze Zeit) aufhält
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gastland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Georgien wird 2018 das Gastland der Frankfurter Buchmesse sein, und mich zieht es in die Kloster- und Weinregion Kachetien: weiche, grüne Hügel, malerische, tief in den Wäldern versteckte Kirchen, Margeritenfelder, Esel, Pferde und in der Ferne die schneebedeckten Berge des Kaukasus.“
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); 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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