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alanna

noun

alanna is a noun meaning “child” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-A-N-N-A and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Alanna, the name). The plural of alanna is alannas.

What does alanna mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Irelandchild

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce alanna?

    Alanna has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    Forms of alanna

    • alannas plural

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

    How common is alanna?

    Alanna appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,114th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Alanna, the name.

    Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

    Where does alanna come from?

    From Irish a leanbh (“O child”).

    Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).