alums
/ˈa.ləmz/
"alums" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alums” is uncommon English (frequency #57,851 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,851
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of alum
Corpus desk
Index EN-alums · alums · English
alums · rank #57,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,851
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Aliyev
Nearest frequency peer: Aliyev (-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 “alums”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- afore
afore
42,156 corpus weight
- Ainsley
Ainsley
42,153 corpus weight
- Aliyev
Aliyev
42,151 corpus weight
- alums
alums
42,150 corpus weight
- anecdotally
anecdotally
42,146 corpus weight
- anticoagula…
anticoagulant
42,145 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alums” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alums |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈa.ləmz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #57,851 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alums” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alums is uncommon English at frequency #57,851 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈa.ləmz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of alum".
No misspelling variants are generated for alums in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is alums, spelled A-L-U-M-S.
Definition
- 1plural of alum
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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