Gotland
[ˈɡoːtˌlant]
The verdict
“Gotland” is uncommon German (frequency #69,295 among 5,117 “G” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,295
- frequency rank, German
- 5,117
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - zu Schweden gehörende Insel in der Ostsee; eine der 25 historisch gewachsenen Provinzen Schwedens
Corpus desk
Index DE-gotland · Gotland · German
Gotland · rank #69,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,295
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,117
- PHOTO-FINISH Graden
Nearest frequency peer: Graden (+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 „Gotland“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- glattes
glattes
30,710 corpus weight
- gol
gol
30,708 corpus weight
- Gotland
Gotland
30,706 corpus weight
- Graden
Graden
30,705 corpus weight
- Grants
Grants
30,703 corpus weight
- Grappa
Grappa
30,702 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Gotland“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Gotland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈɡoːtˌlant] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Gotland“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Gotland is uncommon German at frequency #69,295 among 5,117 “G” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈɡoːtˌlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "zu Schweden gehörende Insel in der Ostsee; eine der 25 historisch gewachsenen Provinzen Schwedens".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Gotland, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 Gotland, spelled G-O-T-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1zu Schweden gehörende Insel in der Ostsee; eine der 25 historisch gewachsenen Provinzen Schwedens
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Gotland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Gotland ist bekannt für seine sehr artenreiche Naturlandschaft.“
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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