Alun
"alun" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alun” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #47,459. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,459
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A male given name from Welsh.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alun · Alun · English
Alun · rank #47,459 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,459
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH alway
Nearest frequency peer: alway (+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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “Alun”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- albedo
albedo
52,546 corpus weight
- Alisha
Alisha
52,544 corpus weight
- Alun
Alun
52,542 corpus weight
- alway
alway
52,541 corpus weight
- amateurish
amateurish
52,540 corpus weight
- anaphylaxis
anaphylaxis
52,539 corpus weight
What this shows “Alun” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alun |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #47,459 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “Alun”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Alun, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #47,459 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alun, with forms such as "allun", "alnu", and "alunn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "an", "AU", "Ann", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is Alun, spelled A-L-U-N.
Definition
- 1A male given name from Welsh.
- 2The Welsh spelling (Afon Alun) of the River Alyn, in Denbighshire and Flintshire, Wales.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Small and isolated, Llanarmon-yn-Ial is tucked away in the valley of the River Alun. […] The road that approaches Llanarmon-yn-Ial from the south curls around the churchyard, and then runs down to a bridge over the Alun.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allun
- alnu
- alunn
- auln
- laun
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alun - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Alun", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).