Aldo
"aldo" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aldo” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #23,164. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,164
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Italian.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aldo · Aldo · English
Aldo · rank #23,164 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,164
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alden
Nearest frequency peer: Alden (-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 “Aldo”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- absentee
absentee
76,841 corpus weight
- admirers
admirers
76,839 corpus weight
- Alden
Alden
76,838 corpus weight
- Aldo
Aldo
76,837 corpus weight
- Alyssa
Alyssa
76,836 corpus weight
- amin
amin
76,835 corpus weight
What this shows “Aldo” 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 | Aldo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #23,164 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Aldo”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Aldo, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #23,164 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A male given name from Italian.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aldo, with forms such as "adlo", "alddo", and "alldo". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ao", "and", "all", 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 Italian Aldo. The correct English form is Aldo, spelled A-L-D-O.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Italian.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aldo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The police report said that officers, who told CNN they are not currently pursuing criminal charges, arrived to the scene just after midnight and found Gillum and a second person, Aldo Mejias, in the hotel room.
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian Aldo.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- adlo
- alddo
- alldo
- alod
- lado
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aldo - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Aldo", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).