alhaji
"alhaji" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alhaji” is uncommon English (frequency #57,210 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,210
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - title of respect, often used as a shorthand for a businessman from Northern Nigeria.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alhaji · alhaji · English
alhaji · rank #57,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,210
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alexandrian
Nearest frequency peer: Alexandrian (-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 “alhaji”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- agronomy
agronomy
42,795 corpus weight
- Ahern
Ahern
42,794 corpus weight
- Alexandrian
Alexandrian
42,792 corpus weight
- alhaji
alhaji
42,791 corpus weight
- Amerika
Amerika
42,788 corpus weight
- Andriy
Andriy
42,787 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alhaji” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alhaji |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alhaji” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alhaji is uncommon English at frequency #57,210 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "title of respect, often used as a shorthand for a businessman from Northern Nigeria.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alhaji, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. 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: From Hausa àlhajī. The correct English form is alhaji, spelled A-L-H-A-J-I.
Definition
- 1title of respect, often used as a shorthand for a businessman from Northern Nigeria.
Etymology
From Hausa àlhajī.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).