acrylamide
/əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/
"acrylamide" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acrylamide” is uncommon English (frequency #93,369 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,369
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The amide of acrylic acid, CH₂=CH.CONH₂; used in the manufacture of polyacrylamides.
Corpus desk
Index EN-acrylamide · acrylamide · English
acrylamide · rank #93,369 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,369
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Achaemenid
Nearest frequency peer: Achaemenid (-1 rank slots)
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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 “acrylamide”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- abseiling
abseiling
6,635 corpus weight
- acclimatiza…
acclimatization
6,634 corpus weight
- Achaemenid
Achaemenid
6,633 corpus weight
- acrylamide
acrylamide
6,632 corpus weight
- acrylonitri…
acrylonitrile
6,631 corpus weight
- acupuncturi…
acupuncturist
6,629 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “acrylamide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “acrylamide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
acrylamide is uncommon English at frequency #93,369 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈkɹɪləmaɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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