Alamogordo

name

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

The verdict

“Alamogordo” is an uncommon English word, ranked #74,712 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#74,712
frequency rank, English
10
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.

Key facts for Alamogordo
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlamogordo
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters10
Frequency rank#74,712
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Alamogordo” sits in English frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Alamogordo lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for Alamogordo is 10 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #74,712 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.

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?
"Alamogordo" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Alamogordo”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is A-L-A-M-O-G-O-R-D-O - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list