alphabetic
/ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/
"alphabetic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alphabetic” is uncommon English (frequency #53,996 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,996
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alphabetic · alphabetic · English
alphabetic · rank #53,996 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,996
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH altimeter
Nearest frequency peer: altimeter (+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 “alphabetic”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aishwarya
Aishwarya
46,008 corpus weight
- aks
aks
46,007 corpus weight
- alphabetic
alphabetic
46,005 corpus weight
- altimeter
altimeter
46,004 corpus weight
- alumnae
alumnae
46,003 corpus weight
- Ameer
Ameer
46,001 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alphabetic” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alphabetic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,996 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alphabetic” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alphabetic is uncommon English at frequency #53,996 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˌæl.fəˈbɛt.ɪk/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.".
alphabetic doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic. The correct English form is alphabetic, spelled A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T-I-C.
Definition
- 1Of or relating to an alphabet, especially the characters A to Z, both uppercase and lowercase.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alphabetic appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seycong or his linguistic consultants could use as a model the alphabetic or abugidic scripts of India and Inner Asia […]
Etymology
Partly from French alphabétique and partly from its etymon Latin alphabēticus. By surface analysis, alphabet + -ic.
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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