landvslangWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: land is a noun, lang is an adverb, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“land” is a noun and “lang” is an adverb - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#7,791
“land” frequency rank
#17,555
“lang” frequency rank
25346
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature land lang
Definition terra, solo, chão por

Letter map: land vs lang

Shared letters muted; letters that set land and lang apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

4 ch
land
4 ch
lang

Part-of-speech tell for land / lang

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: land is anoun and langanadverb. On the page they differ by a single letter - d in “land” becomes g in “lang”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 25346, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

land is recorded at frequency rank #7,791, classified as anoun, pronounced /ˈlɑnt/. lang is at rank #17,555, tagged as anadv.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 25346, this pair ranks #43,996 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of land vs lang

Shared letters: aln. Private to "land": d. Private to "lang": g.

"land" · 4 letters · shape CVCC  ·  "lang" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • landalnd · ladn · landd · lannd · lland · lnad
  • langalng · lagn · langg · lanng · llang · lnag

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "land" and "lang" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "land" is a noun and "lang" an adverb, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "land" vs "lang" - which ranks higher?
"land" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #7,791 in our Portuguese list, against #17,555 for "lang". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

Useful next steps

You've compared "land" and "lang". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "land" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "lang" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #43,996 of 75,631 scored Portuguese confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "land" and "lang" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "lang vs liana". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #43,996 of 75,631 scored Portuguese pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list