amantadine
/əˈmæn.təˌdin/noun
amantadine is spelled A-M-A-N-T-A-D-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is amatadine: about 150 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Amantadine is a noun meaning “A drug used especially as the hydrochloride C₁₀H₁₇N·HCl to prevent infection (as by an influenzavirus) by…”. The plural of amantadine is amantadines.
How many letters and syllables are in amantadine?
| Letters | 10: A-M-A-N-T-A-D-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 16 million words; the 119,826th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, amatadine, about 150 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell amantadine?
Amantadine is spelled A-M-A-N-T-A-D-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for amantadine 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 amantadine?
Amantadine appears about once in every 16 million words in written English, the 119,826th 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 amantadine?
- US /əˈmæn.təˌdin/
Amantadine has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with amantadine?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amantadine from its last stressed vowel (/æntədin/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: adamantine.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of amantadine
- amantadines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amantadine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A drug used especially as the hydrochloride C₁₀H₁₇N·HCl to prevent infection (as by an influenzavirus) by interfering with virus penetration into host cells.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amantadine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense Translations:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | amantadina |
| Spanish | amantadina |
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 amantadine come from?
From amantad- (“alteration of adamantane”) + -ine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).