Kurland
[ˈkuːɐ̯lant]
The verdict
“Kurland” is uncommon German (frequency #61,690 among 4,158 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,690
- frequency rank, German
- 4,158
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - eine historische Landschaft in Lettland
Corpus desk
Index DE-kurland · Kurland · German
Kurland · rank #61,690 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,690
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,158
- PHOTO-FINISH Kunstwerks
Nearest frequency peer: Kunstwerks (-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 „Kurland“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kundig
kundig
38,314 corpus weight
- Kunstwerks
Kunstwerks
38,312 corpus weight
- Kurland
Kurland
38,311 corpus weight
- Kuscheltier
Kuscheltier
38,310 corpus weight
- Käfigen
Käfigen
38,309 corpus weight
- kümmerst
kümmerst
38,308 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Kurland“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kurland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈkuːɐ̯lant] |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,690 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Kurland“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Kurland is uncommon German at frequency #61,690 among 4,158 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed [ˈkuːɐ̯lant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "eine historische Landschaft in Lettland".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Kurland, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Kurland, spelled K-U-R-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1eine historische Landschaft in Lettland
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kurland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kurland liegt im Westen Lettlands.
„Der Baron Treyden ermunterte mich dazu und versprach mir einen Empfehlungsbrief an seine Schwester, die Herzogin von Kurland; ich bat sogleich Signor Bragadin um eine Empfehlung an einen Bankier in Petersburg, der mir jeden Monat den Betrag auszahlen sollte, den ich für ein angenehmes Leben nötig haben würde.“
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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