allowlist
"allowlist" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“allowlist” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of whitelist.
Corpus desk
Index EN-allowlist · allowlist · English
allowlist · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allowlist |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “allowlist” in English
Rare enough to double-check
allowlist is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Synonym of whitelist.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for allowlist, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is allowlist, spelled A-L-L-O-W-L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Synonym of whitelist.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how allowlist appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
CockroachDB Dedicated provides an IP allowlist function that serves as a global firewall for the cluster. Using the allowlist, we can allow individual IP addresses or IP address ranges in Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) format to the cluster.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.