alhamdulillah
/alˌhamduːlɪˈlɑː/
"alhamdulillah" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alhamdulillah” is uncommon English (frequency #97,778 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,778
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Praise be to God; thank God.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alhamdulillah · alhamdulillah · English
alhamdulillah · rank #97,778 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,778
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alejo
Nearest frequency peer: Alejo (-3 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 “alhamdulillah”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Agathon
Agathon
2,230 corpus weight
- Alejo
Alejo
2,226 corpus weight
- alhamdulill…
alhamdulillah
2,223 corpus weight
- americium
americium
2,219 corpus weight
- anet
anet
2,217 corpus weight
- Angelino
Angelino
2,216 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alhamdulillah” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alhamdulillah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /alˌhamduːlɪˈlɑː/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #97,778 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alhamdulillah” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alhamdulillah is uncommon English at frequency #97,778 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /alˌhamduːlɪˈlɑː/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alhamdulillah, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Arabic اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu li-llāhi, literally “praise [be] to God”). The correct English form is alhamdulillah, spelled A-L-H-A-M-D-U-L-I-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1Praise be to God; thank God.
- 2thank God (Said by someone who has just sneezed.)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu li-llāhi, literally “praise [be] to God”).
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).