Ödland
[ˈøːtlant]
The verdict
“Ödland” is uncommon German (frequency #68,936 among 53 “Ö” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,936
- frequency rank, German
- 53
- “Ö” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - unbebautes Gelände, das nicht für forst- oder landwirtschaftliche Nutzung geeignet ist
Corpus desk
Index DE-odland · Ödland · German
Ödland · rank #68,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,936
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 53
- PHOTO-FINISH Äxte
Nearest frequency peer: Äxte (-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 „Ödland“
Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer
- Zwischenrufe
Zwischenrufe
31,068 corpus weight
- Äxte
Äxte
31,066 corpus weight
- Ödland
Ödland
31,065 corpus weight
- Ölwechsel
Ölwechsel
31,064 corpus weight
- überdreht
überdreht
31,063 corpus weight
- Überholmanö…
Überholmanöver
31,062 corpus weight
What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Ödland“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ödland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈøːtlant] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „Ödland“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
Ödland is uncommon German at frequency #68,936 among 53 “Ö” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈøːtlant]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "unbebautes Gelände, das nicht für forst- oder landwirtschaftliche Nutzung geeignet ist".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ödland in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular German conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Ödland, spelled Ö-D-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1unbebautes Gelände, das nicht für forst- oder landwirtschaftliche Nutzung geeignet ist
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Ödland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Man kann sie [die Mittelmeer-Ackerschnecke] in Gärten, Parkanlagen, Feldern und im Ödland finden.
Der Bezirk Murau hat österreichweit den höchsten Waldanteil, vor allem weil es wenig hochalpines Ödland gibt und kaum Agrarflächen.
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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