Landsmannschaft
[ˈlant͡smanʃaft]
The verdict
“Landsmannschaft” is uncommon German (frequency #65,451 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,451
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - klassische Form der Studentenverbindung, Vereinigung derjenigen Studenten, die aus dem gleichen Land an eine Universität kommen
Corpus desk
Index DE-landsmannschaft · Landsmannschaft · German
Landsmannschaft · rank #65,451 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,451
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH Landnahme
Nearest frequency peer: Landnahme (-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 „Landsmannschaft“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- kölnischen
kölnischen
34,554 corpus weight
- Landnahme
Landnahme
34,551 corpus weight
- Landsmannsc…
Landsmannschaft
34,550 corpus weight
- Laserpointer
Laserpointer
34,549 corpus weight
- Latinum
Latinum
34,548 corpus weight
- Latz
Latz
34,547 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Landsmannschaft“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Landsmannschaft |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlant͡smanʃaft] |
| Letters | 15 |
| Frequency rank | #65,451 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Landsmannschaft“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Landsmannschaft is uncommon German at frequency #65,451 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlant͡smanʃaft]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Landsmannschaft in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is Landsmannschaft, spelled L-A-N-D-S-M-A-N-N-S-C-H-A-F-T.
Definition
- 1klassische Form der Studentenverbindung, Vereinigung derjenigen Studenten, die aus dem gleichen Land an eine Universität kommen
- 2Vertriebenenverband nach dem 2. Weltkrieg
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Landsmannschaft appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vertreter der Landsmannschaft nahmen an der Feierlichkeit zum Universitätsjubiläum teil.
In der Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen fanden viele von dort Vertriebene eine geistige Heimat.
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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