alluvium
"alluvium" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alluvium” is an uncommon English word, ranked #78,349 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #78,349
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alluvium |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #78,349 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alluvium” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for alluvium is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #78,349 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain".
alluvium doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”). The correct English form is alluvium, spelled A-L-L-U-V-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Etymology
From Medieval Latin alluvium (“matter deposited by flowing water”), neuter of alluvius (“deposited by a river”), from Latin alluviō (“washing upon, overflowing”).
This word in other languages
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 “alluvium”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-L-U-V-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.