Alamo

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The verdict

“Alamo” is uncommon German (frequency #81,246 among 6,976 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#81,246
frequency rank, German
6,976
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio

Corpus desk

Index DE-alamo · Alamo · German

Alamo · rank #81,246 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #81,246
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,976
  • PHOTO-FINISH Alarmsignal

Nearest frequency peer: Alarmsignal (+1 rank slots)

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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „Alamo“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „Alamo“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Alamo
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlamo
LanguageGerman
Part of speechProper noun
IPA[…]
Letters5
Frequency rank#81,246
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „Alamo“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).Alamofällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Alarmsignal“ (#81,247), „Aerosole“ (#81,244), „Aleksander“ (#81,248). Unter 6,976 „A“-Lemmata liegt „Alamo“ bei #81,246. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Alamo is uncommon German at frequency #81,246 among 6,976 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio".

Alamo has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct German form is Alamo, spelled A-L-A-M-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Alamo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. „Situationen wie bei der Schlacht von Alamo hatten ihm noch nie gefallen.“
  2. „Pedro hatte erst lamentiert: ›Mrs Landis würde das nicht gutheißen‹, aber Jack hatte ihm in Erinnerung gerufen, dass Mrs Landis nicht da war, um ihm seinen mexikanischen Arsch zu retten, falls er auf die Idee kommen sollte, sich für die Schlacht von Alamo rächen zu wollen.“

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Alamo"?
"Alamo" is spelled A-L-A-M-O. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "Alamo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Alamo" means: Fort in der texanischen Stadt San Antonio
How do you pronounce "Alamo"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Alamo" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Alamo" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Alamo", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list