land of opportunity

name

"land-of-opportunity" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“land of opportunity” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
19
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The United States.

Corpus desk

Index EN-land-of-opportunity · land of opportunity · English

land of opportunity · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 19 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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.

Key facts for land of opportunity
PropertyValue
Headwordland of opportunity
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “land of opportunity” in English

land of opportunityranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

land of opportunity is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The United States.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for land of opportunity, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is land of opportunity, spelled L-A-N-D- -O-F- -O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    The United States.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how land of opportunity appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. They say America is the land of opportunity. Opportunity for what? For children to run in the dirty streets? - Mr Mousekewitz in An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
  2. It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced co…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "land of opportunity"?
"land of opportunity" is spelled L-A-N-D- -O-F- -O-P-P-O-R-T-U-N-I-T-Y.
What does "land of opportunity" mean?
As a proper noun, "land of opportunity" means: The United States.
What language does "land of opportunity" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list