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land

UK [lænd]noun, verb

land is spelled L-A-N-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 166 times per million words in written English, the 611th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, land means “The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of land is lands.

How many letters and syllables are in land?

Letters4: L-A-N-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing166 times per million words; the 611th 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 land?

Land appears 166 times per million words in written English, the 611th 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 land?

  • /lænd/
  • UK [lænd]
  • British [land]

Land has one syllable (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: En-us-land.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl--land.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with land

Also written: lande.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of land

  • lands plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • landing participle, present
  • landed participle, past

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

What does land mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.

    Most insects live on land.

  2. 2

    Real estate or landed property; a partitioned and measurable area which is owned and acquired and on which buildings and structures can be built and erected.

    There are 50 acres of land in this estate.

  3. 3

    A country or region.

    They come from a faraway land.

  4. 4

    A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.

  5. 5

    The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.

    wet land

  6. 6

    Realm, domain.

    I'm going to Disneyland.

  7. 7

    The ground left unploughed between furrows.

  8. 8

    Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.

  9. 9

    lant; urine

verb

  1. 1

    To descend to a surface, especially from the air.

    The plane is about to land.

  2. 2

    datedTo alight, to descend from a vehicle.

    10. You will be civil and attentive to passengers, giving proper assistance to ladies and children getting in or out, and never start the car before passengers are fairly received or landed.

  3. 3

    To come into rest.

  4. 4

    To arrive on land, especially a shore or dock, from a body of water.

  5. 5

    To bring to land.

    It can be tricky to land a helicopter.

  6. 6

    informalTo capture or arrest.

  7. 7

    To acquire; to secure.

    She landed a job at the company.

  8. 8

    slangTo succeed in having sexual relations with; to score.

    Too ugly to ever land a chick.

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

How do you abbreviate land?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of land: ld..

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

Land in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchterre (part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or…), terrain (real estate or landed property), contrée, pays (country or region), se poser, atterrir (to descend to a surface, especially from the air)
GermanLand, Länder (part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or…), landen (to descend to a surface, especially from the air), an Land ziehen (to acquire; to secure), -land (territory, country or region (suffix))
Portugueseterra (part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or…), propriedade, terreno (real estate or landed property), região (country or region), aterrar, pousar (to descend to a surface, especially from the air)
Spanishtierra (part of Earth that is not covered by oceans or…), terreno m hacienda, fundo, terruño, baldío, predio (real estate or landed property)

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 land come from?

From Middle English lond, land, from Old English land, from Proto-West Germanic *land, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“land, heath”).

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

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