Altus
"altus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Altus” is uncommon English (frequency #80,179 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,179
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A city, the county seat of Jackson County, in southwest Oklahoma, United States.
Corpus desk
Index EN-altus · Altus · English
Altus · rank #80,179 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,179
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amaryllis
Nearest frequency peer: amaryllis (+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 “Altus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alif
alif
19,827 corpus weight
- Allendale
Allendale
19,826 corpus weight
- Altus
Altus
19,822 corpus weight
- amaryllis
amaryllis
19,821 corpus weight
- Ananias
Ananias
19,817 corpus weight
- anastomosis
anastomosis
19,816 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Altus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #80,179 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Altus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Altus is uncommon English at frequency #80,179 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A city, the county seat of Jackson County, in southwest Oklahoma, United States.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Altus, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is Altus, spelled A-L-T-U-S.
Definition
- 1A city, the county seat of Jackson County, in southwest Oklahoma, United States.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Altus appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On Friday night, eight US Air Force KC-135 Stratotankers took off from Altus, Oklahoma, according to data from FlightRadar24. Over Kansas the tankers refueled two groups of planes, identified on air traffic control audio by their callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT. The callsign MYTEE has previously been associated with special activity flights by B-2 b…
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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