Amida
"amida" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Amida” is uncommon English (frequency #75,611 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,611
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ancient city in Mesopotamia located within modern Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amida · Amida · English
Amida · rank #75,611 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,611
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH analyser
Nearest frequency peer: analyser (+2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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 “Amida”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Aldgate
Aldgate
24,397 corpus weight
- alighted
alighted
24,394 corpus weight
- Amida
Amida
24,390 corpus weight
- analyser
analyser
24,388 corpus weight
- Annas
Annas
24,387 corpus weight
- anny
anny
24,386 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Amida” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Amida |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #75,611 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Amida” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Amida is uncommon English at frequency #75,611 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An ancient city in Mesopotamia located within modern Diyarbakır, Turkey.".
Amida doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Amida, from Ancient Greek Ἄμιδα (Ámida), apparently from an Aramaic form with emphatic state ending equivalent to Classical Syriac ܐܡܝܕ (ʾamīḏ). The correct English form is Amida, spelled A-M-I-D-A.
Definition
- 1An ancient city in Mesopotamia located within modern Diyarbakır, Turkey.
Etymology
From Latin Amida, from Ancient Greek Ἄμιδα (Ámida), apparently from an Aramaic form with emphatic state ending equivalent to Classical Syriac ܐܡܝܕ (ʾamīḏ).
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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