amid
/əˈmɪd/preposition
amid is spelled A-M-I-D: 4 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “amid vs amidst” about 2,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a preposition, amid means “In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in amid?
| Letters | 4: A-M-I-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.9 times per million words; the 7,672nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is amid?
Amid appears 8.9 times per million words in written English, the 7,672nd 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 amid?
- US /əˈmɪd/
Amid has 2 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-amid.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with amid
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: amide.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with amid?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as amid from its last stressed vowel (/ɪd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: maid, diam.
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 amid
- 'mid
- mid
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amid mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
preposition
- 1
In the middle of; in the center of; surrounded by.
a small lake amid the hills
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amid in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surrounded by:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | au milieu de, entre, parmi, entouré de |
| German | inmitten |
| Portuguese | em meio a |
| Spanish | rodeado por, envuelto, entre, en medio de |
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 amid come from?
From Middle English amidde, Old English on middan, a- + mid.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).