alphabet
/ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/
"alphabet" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alphabet” has 12 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,161. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,161
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The set of letters used when writing in a language.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alphabet · alphabet · English
alphabet · rank #11,161 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #11,161
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH akin
Nearest frequency peer: akin (-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 “alphabet”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- adore
adore
88,843 corpus weight
- AFC
AFC
88,842 corpus weight
- akin
akin
88,841 corpus weight
- alphabet
alphabet
88,840 corpus weight
- appoint
appoint
88,838 corpus weight
- apprentice
apprentice
88,837 corpus weight
What this shows “alphabet” 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 | alphabet |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,161 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “alphabet”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around alphabet (IPA /ˈæl.fəˌbɛt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,161 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alphabet, with forms such as "alhpabet", "allphabet", and "alpahbet". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alphabets", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Gr… The correct English form is alphabet, spelled A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1The set of letters used when writing in a language.
- 2A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- 3A writing system in which letters represent phonemes. (Contrast e.g. logography, a writing system in which each character represents a word, and syllabary, in which each character represents a syllable.)
- 4A typically finite set of distinguishable symbols.
- 5An individual letter of an alphabet; an alphabetic character.
- 6The simplest rudiments; elements.
- 7An agent of the FBI, the CIA, or another such government agency.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alphabet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Greek alphabet has only twenty-four letters.
In the first year of school, pupils are taught to recite the alphabet.
Etymology
From Middle English alphabete, borrowed from Classical Latin alphabētum, from Ancient Greek ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos), from ἄλφα (álpha) and βῆτα (bêta), the names of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, Α (A) and Β (B), lowercase forms α and β. The Greek names derived from aleph, the name of the Phoenician letter 𐤀 (ʾ, “ox”) and beth, the name of the letter 𐤁 (b, “house”), so called because they were pictograms of those objects, having developed from the Egyptian hieroglyphs F1 (𓃾) and pr (𓉐). Doublet of alfabeto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alhpabet
- allphabet
- alpahbet
- alphabbet
- alphabett
- alphabte
- alphaebt
- alphbaet
- alphhabet
- alpphabet
- aplhabet
- laphabet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alphabet - 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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).