adamant
/ˈæd.ə.mənt/adjective, noun
adamant is spelled A-D-A-M-A-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is adament: about 2,310 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 2 in 10 of all searches for the word. Adamant is an adjective meaning “Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined”.
How many letters and syllables are in adamant?
| Letters | 7: A-D-A-M-A-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.9 times per million words; the 20,101st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, adament, about 2,310 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell adamant?
Adamant is spelled A-D-A-M-A-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for adamant in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is adamant?
Adamant appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,101st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce adamant?
- /ˈæd.ə.mənt/
- /ˈæd.ə.mænt/
- /ˈæ.ɖə.menʈ/
Adamant has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-adamant.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Simplificationalizer-adamant.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of adamant
- more adamant comparative
- most adamant superlative
- adamants plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does adamant mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Firm; unshakeable; unyielding; determined.
- 2
Very difficult to break, pierce, or cut.
noun
- 1
An unspecified mineral or rock of virtually impenetrable hardness.
- 2
In later use: diamond.
- 3
archaicIn later use: a lodestone.
- 4
A substance that neutralizes lodestones.
- 5
Chiefly in of adamant: an embodiment of impenetrable hardness; the quality of not being easily destroyed or overcome; impenetrableness, imperviousness, impregnableness; also, of a person: the quality of not being easily affected emotionally; impassiveness, unmovableness.
- 6
obsoleteA person or thing having the quality of attracting or drawing; a lodestone, a magnet.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Adamant in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | inflexible, catégorique |
| German | unnachgiebig, unerbittlich, felsenfest, rigoros, hartnäckig, stur |
| Portuguese | adamantino, intransigente, inflexível, intolerante, firme, obstinado |
| Spanish | acérrimo, abroquelarse , adamante |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adamant come from?
From Middle English adamant, adamaunt, from Latin adamantem, accusative singular form of adamās (“hard as steel”), from Ancient Greek ἀδάμαντ- (adámant-, “invincible”), oblique stem of ἀδάμας (adámas). Doublet of diamond.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).