along of

prep

"along-of" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“along of” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a preposition. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
8
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - because of

Corpus desk

Index EN-along-of · along of · English

along of · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "A" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for along of
PropertyValue
Headwordalong of
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechPreposition
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “along of” in English

along ofranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

along of is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as apreposition. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "because of".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for along of, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is along of, spelled A-L-O-N-G- -O-F.

Definition

  1. 1
    because of

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how along of appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. It’s all along of you that he ventured to do what he did.
  2. "Flint was cap'n; I was quartermaster, along of my timber leg.[…]"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "along of"?
"along of" is spelled A-L-O-N-G- -O-F.
What does "along of" mean?
As a preposition, "along of" means: because of
What language does "along of" come from?
"along of" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list