landward
"landward" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“landward” is uncommon English (frequency #76,931 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,931
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.
Corpus desk
Index EN-landward · landward · English
landward · rank #76,931 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,931
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Lancia
Nearest frequency peer: Lancia (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “landward”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kravis
Kravis
23,074 corpus weight
- Kura
Kura
23,073 corpus weight
- Lancia
Lancia
23,071 corpus weight
- landward
landward
23,070 corpus weight
- laparoscopy
laparoscopy
23,068 corpus weight
- Lawford
Lawford
23,066 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “landward” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | landward |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #76,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “landward” in English
Rare enough to double-check
landward is uncommon English at frequency #76,931 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for landward in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From land + -ward. The correct English form is landward, spelled L-A-N-D-W-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Located, facing or moving in the direction of the land, as opposed to the sea.
- 2Of the country as opposed to the city, rural; agricultural.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how landward appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] the enclosure in which Bulan resided lay on a landward slope a quarter of a mile from the shore, and so divided from it by lofty trees, that, unless when the inhabitants sought the coast for fishing, they took little heed of what was passing at sea.
Ninefold deep to the top of the dykes the galloping breakers stride, And their overcarried spray is a sea—a sea on the landward side.
Etymology
From land + -ward.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).