landau
/ˈlæn.dɔː/
"landau" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“landau” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #34,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,954
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
Corpus desk
Index EN-landau · landau · English
landau · rank #34,954 · 8 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,954
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lancer
Nearest frequency peer: lancer (-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 “landau”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Konrad
Konrad
65,050 corpus weight
- Kraken
Kraken
65,049 corpus weight
- lancer
lancer
65,048 corpus weight
- landau
landau
65,047 corpus weight
- lauder
lauder
65,046 corpus weight
- laurels
laurels
65,045 corpus weight
What this shows “landau” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landau |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlæn.dɔː/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #34,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “landau”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around landau (IPA /ˈlæn.dɔː/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,954 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for landau, with forms such as "alndau", "ladnau", and "lanadu". 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. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "lands", "Linda", "Lanka", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer. The correct English form is landau, spelled L-A-N-D-A-U.
Definition
- 1A type of lightweight, four-wheeled carriage in which the front and back passenger seats face each other.
- 2A style of automobile based around the design of landau carriages.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Indeed, as the two gentlemen reached the door, a landau drove up, a magnificent yellow carriage, lined with brocade or satin of a faint cream colour, drawn by wonderful grey horses, with flaming ribbons, and harness blazing all over with crests: no less than three of these heraldic emblems surmounted the coats-of-arms on the panels, and these shields cont…
On an early winter afternoon, clear but not cold, when the vegetable world was a weird multitude of skeletons through whose ribs the sun shone freely, a gleaming landau came to a pause on the crest of a hill in Wessex.
Etymology
Named after the German city of Landau, where such carriages were first made. Compare German Landauer.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alndau
- ladnau
- lanadu
- landdau
- landua
- lanndau
- llandau
- lnadau
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of landau - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).