allium
/ˈæliəm/
"allium" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“allium” is uncommon English (frequency #72,077 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,077
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic.
Corpus desk
Index EN-allium · allium · English
allium · rank #72,077 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,077
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amalgamate
Nearest frequency peer: amalgamate (+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 “allium”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ahm
ahm
27,929 corpus weight
- albacore
albacore
27,926 corpus weight
- allium
allium
27,924 corpus weight
- amalgamate
amalgamate
27,923 corpus weight
- Amun
Amun
27,920 corpus weight
- anaemic
anaemic
27,919 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “allium” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæliəm/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “allium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
allium is uncommon English at frequency #72,077 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæliəm/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic.".
Zero misspellings are on record for allium in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From translingual Allium, from Latin allium. The correct English form is allium, spelled A-L-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Any of many bulbous plants of the genus Allium, including onions and garlic.
Etymology
From translingual Allium, from Latin allium.
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).