amphiphilic
adjective
amphiphilic is spelled A-M-P-H-I-P-H-I-L-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is amphilic: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Amphiphilic is an adjective meaning “Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups”.
How many letters and syllables are in amphiphilic?
| Letters | 11: A-M-P-H-I-P-H-I-L-I-C |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, amphilic, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell amphiphilic?
Amphiphilic is spelled A-M-P-H-I-P-H-I-L-I-C. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for amphiphilic 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 amphiphilic?
Amphiphilic appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).
Forms of amphiphilic
- more amphiphilic comparative
- most amphiphilic superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does amphiphilic mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Being a detergent: having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups.
- 2
Having one surface consisting of hydrophilic amino acids and the opposite surface consisting of hydrophobic (or lipophilic) ones.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Amphiphilic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having both hydrophilic and hydrophobic (or lipophilic) groups:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | anfifílico |
| Spanish | anfifílico |
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 amphiphilic come from?
From amphi- + -philic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).