aluminum
/əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/noun
aluminum is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M: 8 letters and 4 syllables. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “aluminium vs aluminum” about 12,100 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, aluminum means “American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of aluminum is aluminums.
How many letters and syllables are in aluminum?
| Letters | 8: A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,009th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search |
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).
How common is aluminum?
Aluminum appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,009th 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 aluminum?
- US /əˈlu.mɪ.nəm/
- UK /ˌæl.(j)ʊˈmɪn.jəm/
- UK /əˈluː.mɪ.nəm/
Aluminum 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: En-us-aluminum.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-aluminum.wav, En-gb-aluminium.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with aluminum
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).
Forms of aluminum
- aluminums plural
- aluminium
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does aluminum mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
American, Canadian, and Philippines standard spelling of aluminium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does aluminum come from?
Coined by British chemist Humphry Davy in 1812, after the earlier 1807 New Latin form alumium.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).