aloud
/əˈlaʊd/
"aloud" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aloud” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #14,689. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,689
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aloud · aloud · English
aloud · rank #14,689 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,689
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH airs
Nearest frequency peer: airs (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “aloud”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- acquainted
acquainted
85,315 corpus weight
- airs
airs
85,313 corpus weight
- aloud
aloud
85,312 corpus weight
- angular
angular
85,311 corpus weight
- anterior
anterior
85,310 corpus weight
- appendix
appendix
85,309 corpus weight
What this shows “aloud” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aloud |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | /əˈlaʊd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #14,689 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “aloud”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around aloud (IPA /əˈlaʊd/), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #14,689 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for aloud, with forms such as "alloud", "alodu", and "aloudd". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aud", "alum", "Alun", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”). The correct English form is aloud, spelled A-L-O-U-D.
Definition
- 1With a loud voice, or great noise; loudly; audibly.
- 2Audibly, as opposed to silently/quietly.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aloud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Try speaking aloud rather than whispering.
Then we relapsed into a discomfited silence, and wished we were anywhere else. But Miss Thorn relieved the situation by laughing aloud, and with such a hearty enjoyment that instead of getting angry and more mortified we began to laugh ourselves, and instantly felt better.
Etymology
From Middle English aloud, a loude (“aloud”), equivalent to a- + loud or a- + loude (“sound”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alloud
- alodu
- aloudd
- aluod
- aolud
- laoud
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aloud - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aloud", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).