Altuve
"altuve" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Altuve” is uncommon English (frequency #72,936 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,936
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A distance of five feet and five inches, used chiefly as a unit to measure distances of home run balls.
Corpus desk
Index EN-altuve · Altuve · English
Altuve · rank #72,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,936
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Amazonas
Nearest frequency peer: Amazonas (+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 “Altuve”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aker
aker
27,068 corpus weight
- Altuve
Altuve
27,065 corpus weight
- Amazonas
Amazonas
27,064 corpus weight
- Amharic
Amharic
27,062 corpus weight
- AMZN
AMZN
27,061 corpus weight
- anatomist
anatomist
27,060 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Altuve” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altuve |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Altuve” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Altuve is uncommon English at frequency #72,936 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A distance of five feet and five inches, used chiefly as a unit to measure distances of home run balls.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Altuve, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: After José Altuve, Venezuelan-American baseball player who stands five feet, five inches tall. The correct English form is Altuve, spelled A-L-T-U-V-E.
Definition
- 1A distance of five feet and five inches, used chiefly as a unit to measure distances of home run balls.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Altuve appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
So, if you want to know the minimum length of a World Cup Soccer field while watching TV, it's 60.9 Altuves.
In 2012 Houston Astros fan Bryan Trostel was watching a game when he heard the announcers joke about how many “altuves” a home run had traveled.
Etymology
After José Altuve, Venezuelan-American baseball player who stands five feet, five inches tall.
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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