wildland
"wildland" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wildland” is an uncommon English word, ranked #61,221 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #61,221
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | wildland |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,221 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “wildland” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for wildland is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #61,221 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.".
wildland doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From wild + land. The correct English form is wildland, spelled W-I-L-D-L-A-N-D.
Definition
- 1Land that is unfit for, or has not been modified by, cultivation or other human activity; a natural area.
Etymology
From wild + land.
Synonyms
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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Using “wildland”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-I-L-D-L-A-N-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.