Umland
[ˈʊmˌlant]
The verdict
“Umland” has 9 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #10,956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,956
- frequency rank, German
- 2,159
- “U” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Umgebung einer Stadt, eines Gewässers oder sonstigem
Corpus desk
Index DE-umland · Umland · German
Umland · rank #10,956 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,956
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,159
- PHOTO-FINISH Tötung
Nearest frequency peer: Tötung (-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.
Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „Umland“
Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft
- terminal
terminal
89,048 corpus weight
- TuS
TuS
89,047 corpus weight
- Tötung
Tötung
89,046 corpus weight
- Umland
Umland
89,045 corpus weight
- unfähig
unfähig
89,044 corpus weight
- Unterbrechu…
Unterbrechung
89,043 corpus weight
What this shows „Umland“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Umland |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈʊmˌlant] |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #10,956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „Umland“
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Umland (IPA [ˈʊmˌlant]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #10,956 among 2,159 “U” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Umgebung einer Stadt, eines Gewässers oder sonstigem".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Umland, with forms such as "muland", "ulmand", and "umalnd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Umlauf", "Umstand", "Umgang", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is Umland, spelled U-M-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Umgebung einer Stadt, eines Gewässers oder sonstigem
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Umland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
„Das gilt vor allem in Starnberg - die Stadt ist und bleibt das teuerste Pflaster im Münchner Umland.“
„In der Bayerischen Residenz und im Umland erkannten am 30. Juli 1914 viele Ladenbesitzer die günstige Gelegenheit und setzten, getreu dem Prinzip von Angebot und Nachfrage, die Preise herauf.“
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- muland
- ulmand
- umalnd
- umladn
- umlandd
- umlannd
- umlland
- umlnad
- ummland
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Umland - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar German words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Umland", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).