allegiance
/əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/
"allegiance" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“allegiance” has 13 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,336. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,336
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.
Corpus desk
Index EN-allegiance · allegiance · English
allegiance · rank #11,336 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,336
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH aide
Nearest frequency peer: aide (-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 “allegiance”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- abuses
abuses
88,669 corpus weight
- accomplishm…
accomplishment
88,668 corpus weight
- aide
aide
88,666 corpus weight
- allegiance
allegiance
88,665 corpus weight
- apt
apt
88,664 corpus weight
- avatar
avatar
88,662 corpus weight
What this shows “allegiance” 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 | allegiance |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,336 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “allegiance”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around allegiance (IPA /əˈliː.d͡ʒəns/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,336 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for allegiance, with forms such as "alegiance", "alelgiance", and "allegaince". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alliance", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege. The correct English form is allegiance, spelled A-L-L-E-G-I-A-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A loyalty to some cause, nation or ruler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allegiance appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
With what a feeling of joyful security did her heart go back to its old allegiance! Till now she had scarcely been aware of its strength, for she had known it but by its disappointment—now she fully admitted that early and passionate emotion with which Robert Evelyn had inspired her was indeed her destiny;...
It was always going to be a hot occasion for Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, the one-time Ireland internationals who subsequently switched their allegiances.
Etymology
From Middle English alegiaunce, from Anglo-Norman alegaunce (“loyalty of a liege-servant to one's lord”), variant of Old French ligeance, from lige (“vassal, liegeman”). More at liege.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alegiance
- alelgiance
- allegaince
- alleggiance
- allegiacne
- allegiancce
- allegianec
- allegiannce
- allegience
- alleginace
- alleigance
- allgeiance
- lalegiance
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allegiance - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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