Alcides
"alcides" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alcides” is uncommon English (frequency #82,978 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,978
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of Hercules.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alcides · Alcides · English
Alcides · rank #82,978 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,978
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alcalde
Nearest frequency peer: alcalde (-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 “Alcides”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aichi
Aichi
17,028 corpus weight
- Alberton
Alberton
17,026 corpus weight
- Albu
Albu
17,025 corpus weight
- alcalde
alcalde
17,024 corpus weight
- Alcides
Alcides
17,023 corpus weight
- allergist
allergist
17,019 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alcides” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alcides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #82,978 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Alcides” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Alcides is uncommon English at frequency #82,978 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of Hercules.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Alcides in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Alcīdes, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκείδης (Alkeídēs), from Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos, “Alcaeus”) + patronymic suffix -ίδης (-ídēs). The correct English form is Alcides, spelled A-L-C-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Synonym of Hercules.
Etymology
From Latin Alcīdes, from Ancient Greek Ἀλκείδης (Alkeídēs), from Ἀλκαῖος (Alkaîos, “Alcaeus”) + patronymic suffix -ίδης (-ídēs).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).