Alamogordo

name

"alamogordo" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“Alamogordo” is uncommon English (frequency #74,712 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#74,712
frequency rank, English
3,931
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, widely known for its connection with the 1945 Trinity test, which was the first ever explosion of an atomic bomb.

Corpus desk

Index EN-alamogordo · Alamogordo · English

Alamogordo · rank #74,712 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #74,712
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,931
  • PHOTO-FINISH Albie

Nearest frequency peer: Albie (+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 “Alamogordo”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alamogordo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Alamogordo
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlamogordo
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#74,712
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “Alamogordo” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).Alamogordofalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Rare peers in the same band: “Albie” (#74,713), “Akiba” (#74,710), “Alcibiades” (#74,714). Among 3,931 “A” headwords, “Alamogordo” is #74,712. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Alamogordo is uncommon English at frequency #74,712 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, widely known for its connection with the 1945 Trinity test, which was the first ever explosion of an atomic bomb.".

Zero misspellings are on record for Alamogordo in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Alamogordo, spelled A-L-A-M-O-G-O-R-D-O.

Definition

  1. 1
    A city, the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, widely known for its connection with the 1945 Trinity test, which was the first ever explosion of an atomic bomb.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. That night at Alamogordo when, younger than I now was, Dad watched mankind’s first, artificial sunrise.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Alamogordo"?
"Alamogordo" is spelled A-L-A-M-O-G-O-R-D-O.
What does "Alamogordo" mean?
As a proper noun, "Alamogordo" means: A city, the county seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States, widely known for its connection with the 1945 Trinity test, which was the first ever explosion of an atomic bomb.
What language does "Alamogordo" come from?
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Similar English words by spelling shape

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Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list