AML
"aml" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“AML” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,720) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,720
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Initialism of acute myeloblastic leukemia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-aml · AML · English
AML · rank #38,720 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,720
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Amazonian
Nearest frequency peer: Amazonian (-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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “AML”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- Alvarado
Alvarado
61,283 corpus weight
- Amazonian
Amazonian
61,282 corpus weight
- AML
AML
61,281 corpus weight
- amorous
amorous
61,280 corpus weight
- anabolic
anabolic
61,279 corpus weight
- Andersson
Andersson
61,278 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “AML” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | AML |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,720 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “AML”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AML is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #38,720 among 3,931 “A” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for AML in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 AML, spelled A-M-L.
Definition
- 1Initialism of acute myeloblastic leukemia.
- 2Initialism of acute myelogenous leukemia.
- 3Initialism of acute myeloid leukemia.
- 4Initialism of anti-money laundering.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how AML appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Secondary AML was assigned if a patient had a history of chemotherapy/radiation therapy for a malignancy and/or had a history of preleukemic disease (eg, myelodysplastic syndrome [MDS], myeloproliferative neoplasm [MPN]).
“Their AML regulation isn't as stringent because of the anonymity around some of their banking rules,” he says.
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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