alkaloids
/ˈæl.kə.lɔɪdz/
"alkaloids" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alkaloids” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #43,022 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #43,022
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - plural of alkaloid
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alkaloids |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪdz/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alkaloids” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for alkaloids is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪdz/. Corpus data places it at rank #43,022 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "plural of alkaloid".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alkaloids, with forms such as "aklaloids", "alakloids", and "alkaliods". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is alkaloids, spelled A-L-K-A-L-O-I-D-S.
Definition
- 1plural of alkaloid
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aklaloids,alakloids,alkaliods,alkalloids,alkalodis,alkaloidds,alkaloidss,alkaloisd,alkaolids,alkkaloids,alklaoids,allkaloids,lakaloids
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alkaloids - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Using “alkaloids”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-K-A-L-O-I-D-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈæl.kə.lɔɪdz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
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.