landing gear
"landing-gear" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“landing gear” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The wheels, tyres, brakes, shock absorbers etc of an aircraft; its undercarriage.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landing gear |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “landing gear” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for landing gear is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
landing gear has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is landing gear, spelled L-A-N-D-I-N-G- -G-E-A-R.
Definition
- 1The wheels, tyres, brakes, shock absorbers etc of an aircraft; its undercarriage.
- 2Any of the assemblies which support an aircraft when it is on the ground.
- 3The bipod stand found near the front end underneath a truck trailer, used to keep the trailer level when not attached to a tractor truck.
This word in other languages
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.
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Using “landing gear”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-N-D-I-N-G- -G-E-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.