Alaina
"alaina" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alaina” is uncommon English (frequency #76,521 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,521
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from the Celtic languages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alaina · Alaina · English
Alaina · rank #76,521 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,521
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Akihabara
Nearest frequency peer: Akihabara (-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 “Alaina”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ahistorical
ahistorical
23,484 corpus weight
- Aiello
Aiello
23,483 corpus weight
- Akihabara
Akihabara
23,481 corpus weight
- Alaina
Alaina
23,480 corpus weight
- Alcide
Alcide
23,479 corpus weight
- alliterative
alliterative
23,478 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alaina” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alaina |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #76,521 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Alaina” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Alaina is uncommon English at frequency #76,521 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from the Celtic languages.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Alaina, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: A variant of Alana coined in the 20th century from Alain, the French equivalent of Alan. The correct English form is Alaina, spelled A-L-A-I-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from the Celtic languages.
Etymology
A variant of Alana coined in the 20th century from Alain, the French equivalent of Alan.
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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