alluvium
"alluvium" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alluvium” is uncommon English (frequency #78,349 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,349
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain
Corpus desk
Index EN-alluvium · alluvium · English
alluvium · rank #78,349 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,349
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Algoma
Nearest frequency peer: Algoma (-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 “alluvium”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aldine
Aldine
21,657 corpus weight
- Alesha
Alesha
21,654 corpus weight
- Algoma
Algoma
21,653 corpus weight
- alluvium
alluvium
21,652 corpus weight
- Almagro
Almagro
21,651 corpus weight
- amperage
amperage
21,649 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alluvium” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “alluvium” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alluvium is uncommon English at frequency #78,349 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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