alumna
/əˈlʌmnə/
"alumna" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alumna” is uncommon English (frequency #54,608 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,608
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).
Corpus desk
Index EN-alumna · alumna · English
alumna · rank #54,608 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,608
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Altona
Nearest frequency peer: Altona (-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 “alumna”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alleyways
alleyways
45,396 corpus weight
- Alloa
Alloa
45,395 corpus weight
- Altona
Altona
45,394 corpus weight
- alumna
alumna
45,393 corpus weight
- Alyson
Alyson
45,392 corpus weight
- Amory
Amory
45,391 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alumna” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alumna |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈlʌmnə/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,608 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alumna” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alumna is uncommon English at frequency #54,608 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈlʌmnə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alumna, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin alumna. The correct English form is alumna, spelled A-L-U-M-N-A.
Definition
- 1A female pupil or student (especially of a university or college).
- 2A female graduate.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alumna appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The disaster was shattering to Mystic’s thousands of alumnae, even if they hadn’t set foot there for decades. […] Within the first hours and days, there were text chains, prayer services, old photos shared on private Facebook pages, and teary alumnae gatherings, including one at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. […] Nearly every alumna has…
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin alumna.
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).