alkalinity
"alkalinity" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alkalinity” is uncommon English (frequency #64,879 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,879
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alkalinity · alkalinity · English
alkalinity · rank #64,879 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,879
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Amiri
Nearest frequency peer: Amiri (+2 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 “alkalinity”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- AFK
AFK
35,131 corpus weight
- Alanna
Alanna
35,125 corpus weight
- alkalinity
alkalinity
35,122 corpus weight
- Amiri
Amiri
35,120 corpus weight
- animalistic
animalistic
35,117 corpus weight
- Anse
Anse
35,114 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alkalinity” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alkalinity |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #64,879 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alkalinity” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alkalinity is uncommon English at frequency #64,879 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alkalinity in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From alkaline + -ity. The correct English form is alkalinity, spelled A-L-K-A-L-I-N-I-T-Y.
Definition
- 1The state of being, or the degree to which a thing is, alkaline.
Etymology
From alkaline + -ity.
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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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