acrylamide
/əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/
"acrylamide" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acrylamide” is an uncommon English word, ranked #93,369 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #93,369
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The amide of acrylic acid, CH₂=CH.CONH₂; used in the manufacture of polyacrylamides.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acrylamide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,369 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acrylamide” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for acrylamide is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/. Corpus data places it at rank #93,369 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The amide of acrylic acid, CH₂=CH.CONH₂; used in the manufacture of polyacrylamides.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acrylamide, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From acryl + amide. The correct English form is acrylamide, spelled A-C-R-Y-L-A-M-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1The amide of acrylic acid, CH₂=CH.CONH₂; used in the manufacture of polyacrylamides.
Etymology
From acryl + amide.
This word in other languages
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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Using “acrylamide”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-C-R-Y-L-A-M-I-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.