albino
/ælˈbiːnəʊ/
"albino" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“albino” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #27,046. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,046
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.
Corpus desk
Index EN-albino · albino · English
albino · rank #27,046 · 7 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,046
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ajay
Nearest frequency peer: Ajay (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “albino”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
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72,958 corpus weight
- affords
affords
72,957 corpus weight
- Ajay
Ajay
72,956 corpus weight
- albino
albino
72,955 corpus weight
- antichrist
antichrist
72,953 corpus weight
- Antrim
Antrim
72,952 corpus weight
What this shows “albino” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | albino |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ælˈbiːnəʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #27,046 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “albino”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around albino (IPA /ælˈbiːnəʊ/), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #27,046 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for albino, with forms such as "ablino", "albbino", and "albinno". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "amino", "Alvin", "Alina", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Portuguese albino and Spanish albino. * Portuguese albino is from Medieval Latin albinus, from Latin albus * Spanish albino is diminutive of albo, from Latin albus (“white”). The correct English form is albino, spelled A-L-B-I-N-O.
Definition
- 1Congenitally lacking melanin pigmentation in the skin, eyes, and hair or feathers (or more rarely only in the eyes); born with albinism.
Etymology
Borrowed from Portuguese albino and Spanish albino. * Portuguese albino is from Medieval Latin albinus, from Latin albus * Spanish albino is diminutive of albo, from Latin albus (“white”).
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablino
- albbino
- albinno
- albnio
- alibno
- allbino
- labino
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of albino - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).