landscape
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "landscape", 9-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "landscape" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "landscape" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
landscape is aEnglishnoun. It means: A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features. Pronounced /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/. It ranks #3,891 in English word frequency.
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| Headword | landscape |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #3,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for landscape is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈlan(d)skeɪp/. Corpus data places it at rank #3,891 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for landscape, with forms such as "alndscape", "ladnscape", and "landcsape". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, pro… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is landscape, spelled L-A-N-D-S-C-A-P-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1A portion of land or territory as defined by its landform, its geographical (and architectural) features.
- 2A portion of land which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects thus seen.
- 3A sociological aspect of a physical area.
- 4A picture representing a real or imaginary scene by land or sea, the main subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water, etc.
- 5The pictorial aspect of a country.
- 6a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides
- 7A space, indoor or outdoor and natural or man-made (as in "designed landscape")
- 8a situation that is presented, a scenario
Etymology
From an alteration (due to Dutch landschap) of earlier landskip, lantschip, from Middle English *landschippe, *landschapp, from Old English landsċipe, landsċeap (“region, district, tract of land”); in some senses from Dutch landschap (“region, district, province, landscape”), from Middle Dutch landscap, lantscap (“region”), from Old Dutch *landskepi, *landskapi (“region”). Cognate with Scots landskape, landskep, landskip (“landscape”), West Frisian lânskip (“landscape”), Low German landschop (“landscape, district”), German Landschaft (“landscape, countryside, scenery”), Danish landskab (“landscape, countryside”), Swedish landskap (“landscape, scenery, province”), Icelandic landskapur (“countryside”). By surface analysis, land + -ship.
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Also misspelled as: alndscape,ladnscape,landcsape,landdscape,landsacpe,landscaep,landscappe,landsccape,landscpae,landsscape,lanndscape,lansdcape,llandscape,lnadscape
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Misspelling Variants of "landscape"
Frequency rank: #3,891 in English
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