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alg

interjection

alg is an interjection meaning “Abbreviation of all good” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-L-G, and it appears about once in every 4 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does alg mean?

interjection

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of all good.

  2. 2

    informalClipping of algorithm.

noun

as ALG
  1. 1

    Initialism of application-level gateway.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of alg

  • algo-

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is alg?

Alg appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 62,894th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does alg come from?

From Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).