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gangland

noun

gangland is spelled G-A-N-G-L-A-N-D: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, gangland means “The underworld of organized crime” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of gangland is ganglands.

How many letters and syllables are in gangland?

Letters8: G-A-N-G-L-A-N-D
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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

How common is gangland?

Gangland appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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).

Forms of gangland

  • ganglands plural

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

What does gangland mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The underworld of organized crime.

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

Where does gangland come from?

From gang + land.

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

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