# land

> English word · Noun · IPA /lænd/ · frequency rank #608

## Definitions
1. The part of Earth which is not covered by oceans or other bodies of water.
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.
3. A country or region.
4. A person's country of origin and/or homeplace; homeland.
5. The soil, in respect to its nature or quality for farming.
6. Realm, domain.
7. The ground left unploughed between furrows.
8. Any of several portions into which a field is divided for ploughing.
9. A shock or fright.
10. A conducting area on a board or chip which can be used for connecting wires.
11. On a compact disc or similar recording medium, an area of the medium which does not have pits.
12. The non-airline portion of an itinerary. Hotel, tours, cruises, etc.
13. The ground or floor.
14. The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; called also landing.
15. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
16. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, such as the level part of a millstone between the furrows.
17. A group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
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”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots laund (“land”), Yola lhoan, lloan, loan, londe, lone (“land”), North Frisian loun, luin, lun, Lön, lönj, löön (“land”), Saterland Frisian Lound (“land”), West Frisian lân (“land”), Limburgish Land, landj, Laïnt (“land”), Dutch land (“land, country”), Luxembourgish and German Land (“land, country, state”), Vilamovian łaond (“land”), Danish, Elfdalian, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish land (“land, country, shore, territory”). Non-Germanic cognates include Old Irish lann (“heath”), Welsh llan (“enclosure”), Breton lann (“heath”), Old Church Slavonic лѧдо (lędo), from Proto-Slavic *lędo (“heath, wasteland”), French lande (“heath”) and Albanian lëndinë (“heath, grassland”).

## Easily confused with
- **LN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-ln)
- **law** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-law)
- **LED** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-led)
- **lay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lay)
- **las** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-las)
- **lap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lap)
- **lid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lid)
- **lin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lin)
- **lax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lax)
- **LCD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lcd)
- **Len** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-len)
- **Lao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lao)
- **Lau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lau)
- **LSD** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lsd)
- **Lon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lon)
- **LAT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lat)
- **lyn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lyn)
- **lar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lar)
- **lun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lun)
- **Lod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/land-vs-lod)

## Common misspellings (6)
`alnd`, `ladn`, `landd`, `lannd`, `lland`, `lnad`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/land