landwärts
[ˈlantvɛʁt͡s]
The verdict
“landwärts” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - in Richtung auf das Land; dem Land zu
Corpus desk
Index DE-landwarts · landwärts · German
landwärts · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landwärts |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | [ˈlantvɛʁt͡s] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „landwärts“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
landwärts is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anadverb, transcribed [ˈlantvɛʁt͡s]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "in Richtung auf das Land; dem Land zu".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for landwärts, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable German rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is landwärts, spelled L-A-N-D-W-Ä-R-T-S.
Definition
- 1in Richtung auf das Land; dem Land zu
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landwärts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Sie liefen landwärts über die Kanalbrücke am Bienitz, doch störten sie nicht die Fische auf vom Grunde des Wassers.“
„Der Wind trug alles landwärts.“
Antonyms
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.