Landzunge
[ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə]
The verdict
“Landzunge” is an uncommon German word, ranked #63,500 in German word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,500
- frequency rank, German
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - spezielle Form der Halbinsel, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass ihre Verbindung zum Festland nicht schmaler als ihre größte Breite ist
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Landzunge |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə] |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,500 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Landzunge” sits in German frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The German entry for Landzunge is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə]. Corpus data places it at rank #63,500 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "spezielle Form der Halbinsel, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass ihre Verbindung zum Festland nicht schmaler als ihre größte Breite ist".
Landzunge has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Landzunge, spelled L-A-N-D-Z-U-N-G-E.
Definition
- 1spezielle Form der Halbinsel, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass ihre Verbindung zum Festland nicht schmaler als ihre größte Breite ist
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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Using “Landzunge”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is L-A-N-D-Z-U-N-G-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.