Landzunge

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for Landzunge is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, 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".

No misspelling variants are generated for Landzunge in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is Landzunge, spelled L-A-N-D-Z-U-N-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.