aleph
/ˈɑˌlɛf/
"aleph" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aleph” is uncommon English (frequency #59,852 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,852
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-aleph · aleph · English
aleph · rank #59,852 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,852
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Albin
Nearest frequency peer: Albin (-2 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 “aleph”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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airstream
40,153 corpus weight
- Akash
Akash
40,152 corpus weight
- Albin
Albin
40,151 corpus weight
- aleph
aleph
40,149 corpus weight
- angioplasty
angioplasty
40,147 corpus weight
- annihilating
annihilating
40,146 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “aleph” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aleph |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɑˌlɛf/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #59,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “aleph” in English
Rare enough to double-check
aleph is uncommon English at frequency #59,852 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɑˌlɛf/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aleph, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Hebrew אלף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif. The correct English form is aleph, spelled A-L-E-P-H.
Definition
- 1The first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, and its descendants in descended Semitic scripts, such as Phoenician 𐤀 (ʾ, ʾaleph), Aramaic 𐡀 (ʾ), Classical Syriac ܐ ('ālaph), Hebrew א (aleph) and Arabic ا (ʾalif).
- 2The cardinality of an infinite well-ordered (or well-orderable) set.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aleph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The axiom of choice is equivalent to the proposition that every infinite cardinal is an aleph.
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew אלף (álef). Doublet of alpha and alif.
This word in other languages
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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