grassland
"grassland" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grassland” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,482. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,482
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-grassland · grassland · English
grassland · rank #27,482 · 13 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,482
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Hackett
Nearest frequency peer: Hackett (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “grassland”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Gough
Gough
72,522 corpus weight
- graciously
graciously
72,521 corpus weight
- grassland
grassland
72,519 corpus weight
- Hackett
Hackett
72,518 corpus weight
- hajj
hajj
72,517 corpus weight
- Hampstead
Hampstead
72,516 corpus weight
What this shows “grassland” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grassland |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #27,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “grassland”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around grassland, anoun. Corpus frequency is #27,482 among 2,313 “G” headwords. Dominant gloss: "An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for grassland, with forms such as "garssland", "ggrassland", and "grasland". 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. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”). The correct English form is grassland, spelled G-R-A-S-S-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1An area dominated by grass or grasslike vegetation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grassland appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yet despite sounding inhospitable, grasslands such as this are home to a huge variety of smaller herbs and wildflowers, including some of the UK's rarest orchids and invertebrates, in addition to being home to butterfly species such as the Chalkhill Blue.
Etymology
From grass + land. Compare Dutch grasland (“grassland”), Faroese graslendi (“grassland”), Icelandic graslendi (“grassland”). Compare also Old English græsmolde (“grassland”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- garssland
- ggrassland
- grasland
- graslsand
- grassalnd
- grassladn
- grasslandd
- grasslannd
- grasslland
- grasslnad
- grrassland
- grsasland
- rgassland
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of grassland - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "grassland", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).