al's
"al-s" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“al's” is uncommon English (frequency #50,347 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,347
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abbreviation of alias.
Corpus desk
Index EN-al-s · al's · English
al's · rank #50,347 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,347
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alliteration
Nearest frequency peer: alliteration (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “al's”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aerodrome
aerodrome
49,659 corpus weight
- aftercare
aftercare
49,658 corpus weight
- Agni
Agni
49,657 corpus weight
- Agrippa
Agrippa
49,656 corpus weight
- al's
al's
49,654 corpus weight
- alliteration
alliteration
49,653 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “al's” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | al's |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #50,347 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “al's” in English
Rare enough to double-check
al's is uncommon English at frequency #50,347 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abbreviation of alias.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for al's in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 English form is al's, spelled A-L-'-S.
Definition
- 1Abbreviation of alias.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how al's appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Wilkison al's Egbury
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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