Alamogordo
"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
- Aitchison
Aitchison
25,292 corpus weight
- Akiba
Akiba
25,291 corpus weight
- Alamogordo
Alamogordo
25,289 corpus weight
- Albie
Albie
25,288 corpus weight
- Alcibiades
Alcibiades
25,287 corpus weight
- Alitalia
Alitalia
25,285 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alamogordo” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alamogordo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #74,712 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Alamogordo” in English
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
- 1A 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 exampleThese source excerpts show how Alamogordo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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