Alu
[ˈaːlu]
The verdict
“Alu” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #19,118) as an abbreviation. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #19,118
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aluminium
Corpus desk
Index DE-alu · Alu · German
Alu · rank #19,118 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,118
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH amerikanisches
Nearest frequency peer: amerikanisches (+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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „Alu“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
- AGB
AGB
80,886 corpus weight
- agency
agency
80,885 corpus weight
- Alu
Alu
80,883 corpus weight
- amerikanisc…
amerikanisches
80,882 corpus weight
- Ampeln
Ampeln
80,881 corpus weight
- anbelangt
anbelangt
80,880 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „Alu“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alu |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Abbreviation |
| IPA | [ˈaːlu] |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #19,118 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „Alu“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Alu is neighbouring look-alikes ("an", "am", …), not just typos; it is anabbreviation pronounced [ˈaːlu]. Frequency #19,118 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Aluminium".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Alu in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "am", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct German form is Alu, spelled A-L-U.
Definition
- 1Aluminium
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Dosen sind aus Alu.
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.
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