Aleut
/ˌæ.liːˈuːt/
"aleut" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aleut” is uncommon English (frequency #98,950 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,950
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aleut · Aleut · English
Aleut · rank #98,950 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,950
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alehouse
Nearest frequency peer: alehouse (-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 “Aleut”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aiga
aiga
1,056 corpus weight
- Akademi
Akademi
1,055 corpus weight
- Alegria
Alegria
1,053 corpus weight
- alehouse
alehouse
1,052 corpus weight
- Aleut
Aleut
1,051 corpus weight
- amel
amel
1,042 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Aleut” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aleut |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌæ.liːˈuːt/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,950 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Aleut” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Aleut is uncommon English at frequency #98,950 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌæ.liːˈuːt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.".
Aleut doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Russian алеу́т (aleút), probably from a native word, perhaps Aleut allíthuh (“community”) or Chukchi aliat (“island”). The correct English form is Aleut, spelled A-L-E-U-T.
Definition
- 1Of the Aleutian Islands, their inhabitants or their language.
Etymology
From Russian алеу́т (aleút), probably from a native word, perhaps Aleut allíthuh (“community”) or Chukchi aliat (“island”).
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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