almost all
"almost-all" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“almost all” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a determiner - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - All, except for a negligible set, i.e. finite, countable or of measure zero.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | almost all |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Determiner |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “almost all” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for almost all is 10 letters long, classified as a determiner. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for almost all, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 almost all, spelled A-L-M-O-S-T- -A-L-L.
Definition
- 1All, except for a negligible set, i.e. finite, countable or of measure zero.
- 2In non-mathematical use, see almost, all.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “almost all”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-M-O-S-T- -A-L-L - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.