algae
/ˈæl.d͡ʒi/noun
algae is spelled A-L-G-A-E. The wrong spelling people search most is algea: about 1,010 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Algae is a noun meaning “Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth”. The plural of algae is algaes.
How many letters and syllables are in algae?
| Letters | 5: A-L-G-A-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, algea, about 1,010 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell algae?
Algae is spelled A-L-G-A-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for algae in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is algae?
Algae appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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).
How do you pronounce algae?
- US /ˈæl.d͡ʒi/
- US /ˈæl.ɡi/
- UK /ˈæl.ɡiː/
Algae has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-algae.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-algae.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with algae?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as algae (/ældʒi/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: galea.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of algae
- algaes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does algae mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Algal organisms viewed collectively or as a mass; algal growth.
- 2
A particular kind of alga.
- 3
plural of alga
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).