alumni
/əˈlʌmnaɪ/noun
alumni is spelled A-L-U-M-N-I: 6 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “alumni vs alumnus” about 6,600 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, alumni means “plural of alumnus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of alumni is alumnis.
How many letters and syllables are in alumni?
| Letters | 6: A-L-U-M-N-I |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.8 times per million words; the 8,417th 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 alumni?
Alumni appears 7.8 times per million words in written English, the 8,417th 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 alumni?
- /əˈlʌmnaɪ/
- /əˈlʊmnaj/
- /ələmˈnaj/
Alumni has 3 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)-Persent101-alumni.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with alumni
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 alumni
- alumnis plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alumni mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of alumnus
The alumni of this university include many famous artists and politicians.
- 2
plural of alumna
- 3
plural of alum
- 4
proscribedAn individual alumnus or alumna.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does alumni come from?
From Latin alumni.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).