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dreamland

noun

dreamland is spelled D-R-E-A-M-L-A-N-D: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dreamland means “An imaginary world experienced while dreaming” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dreamland is dreamlands.

How many letters and syllables are in dreamland?

Letters9: D-R-E-A-M-L-A-N-D
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 39,336th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is dreamland?

Dreamland appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,336th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce dreamland?

  • US

Dreamland has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-dreamland.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dreamland

  • dreamlands plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dreamland mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An imaginary world experienced while dreaming.

    Near-synonyms: neverland, never-never land

  2. 2

    An imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic; a fantasy.

    Near-synonyms: neverland, never-never land

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Dreamland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpays de rêve, pays imaginaire (imaginary world experienced while dreaming), monde imaginaire, paradis (imagined world that is ideal yet unrealistic)
GermanTraumland (imaginary world experienced while dreaming)
Spanishpaís de los sueños (imaginary world experienced while dreaming)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does dreamland come from?

From dream + -land.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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