Alps
/ælps/
"alps" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alps” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #13,656. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,656
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alps · Alps · English
Alps · rank #13,656 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,656
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amidst
Nearest frequency peer: amidst (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Alps”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- aha
aha
86,348 corpus weight
- Aleppo
Aleppo
86,347 corpus weight
- Alps
Alps
86,345 corpus weight
- amidst
amidst
86,344 corpus weight
- antarctic
antarctic
86,343 corpus weight
- antibodies
antibodies
86,342 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Alps” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | Alps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ælps/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #13,656 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Alps” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Alps (IPA /ælps/), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #13,656 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alps, with forms such as "allps", "alpps", and "alpss". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "AP", "ass", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Latin Alpēsder. Middle French Alpesbor. Middle English Alpes English Alps From Middle English Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Al… The correct English form is Alps, spelled A-L-P-S.
Definition
- 1A mountain range in Western Europe, running from France to Slovenia, the highest peak of which is Mont Blanc, at 4808 metres.
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin Alpēsder. Middle French Alpesbor. Middle English Alpes English Alps From Middle English Alpes, from Old English Alpis, ultimately from Latin Alpēs; in later use partly via French. Compare German Alpen (“alps”, plurale tantum), German Alp (“mountainous pasture”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allps
- alpps
- alpss
- alsp
- apls
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alps - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).
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- "Alps" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "as". View pair
- 5 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #13,656 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.