Allah
/əˈlɑː/
"allah" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Allah” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,384. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,384
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
Corpus desk
Index EN-allah · Allah · English
Allah · rank #8,384 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,384
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aiming
Nearest frequency peer: aiming (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Allah”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- accessed
accessed
91,620 corpus weight
- adverse
adverse
91,619 corpus weight
- aiming
aiming
91,618 corpus weight
- Allah
Allah
91,617 corpus weight
- alumni
alumni
91,616 corpus weight
- ana
ana
91,615 corpus weight
What this shows “Allah” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Allah |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /əˈlɑː/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,384 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Allah”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Allah (IPA /əˈlɑː/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,384 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Allah, with forms such as "alah", "alalh", and "allahh". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ally", "alma", "alta", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה (aláh) and אלהא (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל (él), אֱלוֹהַּ / אֱלֹהַּ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil… The correct English form is Allah, spelled A-L-L-A-H.
Definition
- 1God, in Islamic or Arabic contexts
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Allah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What is the Shia Islamic view on the attributes of Allah?
We are too much men and women; we are yet formed in the image of the Creator, and what can we say of Him with any certainty except that He, whoever He may be—Christ, Yahweh, Allah—He made us, did He not, because even He in His Infinite Perfection could not bear to be alone.
Etymology
From Arabic اللّٰه (allāh), contraction of اَل (al-, “the”) + إِلَه (ʔilah, “deity”); cognate with the Aramaic אלה (aláh) and אלהא (aláhâ), and Hebrew אֵל (él), אֱלוֹהַּ / אֱלֹהַּ (elóah) and אֱלוֹהִים \ אֱלֹהִים (elohím); ultimately from Proto-Semitic *ʾil-.-.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alah
- alalh
- allahh
- allha
- lalah
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Allah - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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