alimentary canal
"alimentary-canal" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alimentary canal” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The organs of a human or other animal through which food passes; the digestive tract.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alimentary canal |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alimentary canal” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alimentary canal is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The organs of a human or other animal through which food passes; the digestive tract.".
alimentary canal has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is alimentary canal, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y- -C-A-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1The organs of a human or other animal through which food passes; the digestive tract.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct English spelling is A-L-I-M-E-N-T-A-R-Y- -C-A-N-A-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.