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landmark

/ˈlændmɑɹk/noun, verb

landmark is spelled L-A-N-D-M-A-R-K: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, landmark means “An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of landmark is landmarks.

How many letters and syllables are in landmark?

Letters8: L-A-N-D-M-A-R-K
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing7.8 times per million words; the 8,417th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is landmark?

Landmark appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce landmark?

  • UK /ˈlændmɑːk/
  • US /ˈlændmɑɹk/
  • US [ˈlɛandmɑɹk]

Landmark has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-landmark.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-landmark.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with landmark

Also written: land mark (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with landmark?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as landmark (/ændmɑɹk/).

Spelled with the same letters in another order: markland.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of landmark

  • landmarks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • land-mark
  • land mark
  • landmarking participle, present
  • landmarked participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does landmark mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An object that marks the boundary of a piece of land (usually a stone, or a tree).

  2. 2

    A recognizable natural or man-made feature used for navigation.

  3. 3

    A notable location with historical, cultural, or geographical significance.

  4. 4

    A major event or discovery.

    an important landmark in human history

verb

  1. 1

    USTo officially designate a site or building as a landmark.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Landmark in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchrepère, point de repère, amer (recognizable feature), site (notable location)
GermanWahrzeichen, Orientierungspunkt, Orientierungshilfe (recognizable feature), Sehenswürdigkeit (notable location), Meilenstein, richtungsweisendes Ereignis (major event)
Portuguesemarco (recognizable feature), cartão-postal (notable location)
Spanishhito, punto referencial, mojón, fito (disused) (recognizable feature), monumento (notable location)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does landmark come from?

From Middle English *landmark, from Old English landmearc (“boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *landamarku (“boundary, landmark”). Equivalent to land + mark. Cognate with German Landmarke (“landmark”), Danish landemærke (“landmark”), Swedish landmärke (“landmark”), Norwegian landemerke (“landmark”) and Faroese landamark (“land frontier”). Compare also Middle English londes-mark (“boundary”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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