land of the free

name

"land-of-the-free" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“land of the free” 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
16
letters

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

Corpus desk

Index EN-land-of-the-free · land of the free · English

land of the free · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "L" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 the free
PropertyValue
Headwordland of the free
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “land of the free” in English

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

Zero misspellings are on record for land of the free in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is land of the free, spelled L-A-N-D- -O-F- -T-H-E- -F-R-E-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The United States of America.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave, / O'er the land of the Free, and the home of the brave?
  2. […] nowhere but in America could a liberty, so easily acquired, be so easily maintained. Since that time, Heaven has smiled incessantly on the land of the free.

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 the free"?
"land of the free" is spelled L-A-N-D- -O-F- -T-H-E- -F-R-E-E.
What does "land of the free" mean?
As a proper noun, "land of the free" means: The United States of America.
What language does "land of the free" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list