Alissa
/əˈlɪs.ə/
"alissa" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alissa” is uncommon English (frequency #50,926 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,926
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alissa · Alissa · English
Alissa · rank #50,926 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,926
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alchemists
Nearest frequency peer: alchemists (-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 “Alissa”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- agglomerati…
agglomeration
49,078 corpus weight
- Alaric
Alaric
49,077 corpus weight
- alchemists
alchemists
49,076 corpus weight
- Alissa
Alissa
49,075 corpus weight
- Alix
Alix
49,074 corpus weight
- alternation
alternation
49,072 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Alissa” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alissa |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈlɪs.ə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,926 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Alissa” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Alissa is uncommon English at frequency #50,926 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /əˈlɪs.ə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A female given name from the Germanic languages.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Alissa in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Variant of Alyssa, from Alicia or from alyssum. The correct English form is Alissa, spelled A-L-I-S-S-A.
Definition
- 1A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Etymology
Variant of Alyssa, from Alicia or from alyssum.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).