Landzunge
[ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə]
The verdict
“Landzunge” is uncommon German (frequency #63,500 among 2,640 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,500
- frequency rank, German
- 2,640
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - spezielle Form der Halbinsel, die dadurch gekennzeichnet ist, dass ihre Verbindung zum Festland nicht schmaler als ihre größte Breite ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-landzunge · Landzunge · German
Landzunge · rank #63,500 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,500
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,640
- PHOTO-FINISH langgestreckt…
Nearest frequency peer: langgestreckten (+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 „Landzunge“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- lahti
lahti
36,505 corpus weight
- Landesarbei…
Landesarbeitsgericht
36,504 corpus weight
- Landesinner…
Landesinneren
36,503 corpus weight
- Landzunge
Landzunge
36,501 corpus weight
- langgestrec…
langgestreckten
36,500 corpus weight
- Laschen
Laschen
36,498 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Landzunge“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| 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) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Landzunge“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Landzunge is uncommon German at frequency #63,500 among 2,640 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈlantˌt͡sʊŋə]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Landzunge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Landzunge rettete den Seefahrern das Leben.
„Das Deutsche Eck bezeichnet eine Landzunge an der Einmündung der Mosel in den Rhein.“
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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