The famousmisspelling of "A lot", it is two words, not one. Learn your spellings next time.
You don't write afew, don't you?
Normal person with normal IQ: Yo guys, there is a lot of rain today!
Another normal person but forgot his spellings a bit: Yo guys, there is alot of rain today!
When asked by his editor why he always spelt alot as one word, Dave wrote back:
"See, you are a prisoner of the English language and I am a language pirate. You are the British with their stuffy coats and large boring navies and I am sailing the high seas of the language with my crew in a fast, nimble ship evading you at every moment plundering the language for the good of the reader and keeping the written sea free of your rules. I've hoisted my flag and given you my finger. Alot."
The Alot is an imaginary creature used as a coping mechanism used by lovers of proper grammar. Instead of becoming angry at the incorrect use of 'a lot' found throughout the internet, the Alot allows the grammar-lover to imagine a sentence that actually makes grammatical sense.
The Alot looks like a cross between a bear, yak and a pug dog, and was created by the author of Hyperbole and a Half. Original description (with pictures) can be found there.
A world that is used primarily on internet site.
It cannot be found in the dictionary and drives many people crazy as it is incorrect.
Allot means to share/ divide space or things- this is where allotment came from, an allotted space of land.
lot- meaning one of a set of objects/ a way of deciding (similar to vote) or the decision or choice made by such a method.
a lot- Very many, a large number; also, very much.
Now, the word 'alot' doesn't appear in any correct dictionary, so it is not a word. It is a popular misspelling- done by those who seem to have missed basic spelling classes in Primary school.