# Poland

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈpəʊ.lənd/ · frequency rank #4,787

## Definitions
1. A country in Central Europe. Official name: Republic of Poland. Capital and largest city: Warsaw.
2. A number of places in the United States:
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. A number of places in the United States:
5. A number of places in the United States:
6. A number of places in the United States:
7. A number of places in the United States:
8. A village on Kiritimati, Kiribati, named after the home country of a plantation manager.
9. A surname.

## Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂-?
Proto-Indo-European *pel-?
Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂-der.
Proto-Slavic *poľe
Proto-Slavic *-janъ
Proto-Indo-European *-nós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos
Proto-Slavic *-inъ
Proto-Slavic *-janinъ
Proto-Slavic *poľaninъder.
German Polebor.
English Pole
Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Germanic *landą
Proto-West Germanic *land
Old English land
Middle English lond
English land
English Poland
1560s. From Pole + land, a phono-semantic matching of German Polen (“Poland”), from Old Polish Polanie (“Poles”, literally “field dwellers”), from Proto-Slavic *poľane, plural of *poľaninъ (“field dweller”), from *poľe (“field”) + *-ěninъ, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, wide”).

## Easily confused with
- **pond** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-pond)
- **pound** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-pound)
- **polar** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-polar)
- **polled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-polled)
- **Pollard** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-pollard)
- **Portland** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/poland-vs-portland)
- **plan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plan-vs-poland)
- **plans** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plans-vs-poland)
- **plant** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plant-vs-poland)
- **plane** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plane-vs-poland)
- **plank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plank-vs-poland)
- **plaid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plaid-vs-poland)
- **plano** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/plano-vs-poland)

## Common misspellings (9)
`opland`, `ploand`, `poalnd`, `poladn`, `polandd`, `polannd`, `polland`, `polnad`, `ppoland`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/poland