země
[ˈzɛmɲɛ]
The verdict
“země” is uncommon German (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency German
- 4
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Erdoberfläche; Erde, Erdboden, Land
Corpus desk
Index DE-zeme · země · German
země · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "Z" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | země |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈzɛmɲɛ] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Langschwanz-Rang von „země“ im Deutschen
Rare enough to double-check
země is uncommon German outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈzɛmɲɛ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
země has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 země, spelled Z-E-M-Ě.
Definition
- 1Erdoberfläche; Erde, Erdboden, Land
- 2eine politische Einheit darstellendes Gebiet; Land
- 3Boden; Erde, Boden, Fußboden
- 4Erdmaterial; Erde, Tonerde
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how země appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Po dvou týdnech se objevila země na obzoru.
„Dům nejspíš půjde k zemi.“
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.