aluminium
/ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.i.əm/noun
aluminium is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M: 9 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “aluminium vs aluminum” about 12,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, aluminium means “A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aluminium is aluminiums.
How many letters and syllables are in aluminium?
| Letters | 9: A-L-U-M-I-N-I-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is aluminium?
Aluminium appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce aluminium?
- UK /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.i.əm/
- UK /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/
- US /ˌæl.(j)uˈmɪn.i.əm/
Aluminium has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Tesco250-aluminium.wav, En-au-aluminium.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-aluminium.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with aluminium
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with aluminium?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as aluminium from its last stressed vowel (/ɪniəm/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of aluminium
- aluminiums plural
- aluminum US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aluminium mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A light, silvery metal extracted from bauxite, and a chemical element (symbol Al) with an atomic number of 13.
- 2
An atom of this element.
- 3
slangAircraft or other machinery made partially or wholly of aluminium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Aluminium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense silvery metal:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.