woodland
wood·land/ˈwʊd.lənd/adjective, noun
woodland is spelled W-O-O-D-L-A-N-D: 8 letters and 2 syllables (wood·land). It appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, woodland means “Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in woodland?
| Letters | 8: W-O-O-D-L-A-N-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: wood·land |
| In writing | 4.5 times per million words; the 12,045th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 woodland?
Woodland appears 4.5 times per million words in written English, the 12,045th 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 woodland?
- US /ˈwʊd.lənd/
- British /ˈwɵd.lənd/
- /ˈwʉd.lənd/
Woodland has 2 syllables, split wood·land in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-woodland.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with woodland?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as woodland (/ʊdlənd/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: download.
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 woodland
- more woodland comparative
- most woodland superlative
- woodlands plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does woodland mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Of a creature or object: growing, living, or existing in a woodland.
The woodland creatures ran from the fire.
- 2
obsoleteHaving the character of a woodland.
noun
- 1
Land covered with woody vegetation.
Meronym: woodlot
- 2
A low-density forest.
Near-synonym: grove
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Woodland in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sylvestre , bois |
| German | Wald- , Wald, Forst, Waldung, Waldland |
| Portuguese | silvestre, silvícola , mato, mata, bosque |
| Spanish | forestal, del bosque, silvestre , bosque, floresta, foresta |
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 woodland come from?
From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi. Eclipsed non-native Middle English salt (“woodland”), borrowed from Latin saltus (“woodland, forest”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).