amyl
/ˈæ.mɪl/
"amyl" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“amyl” is uncommon English (frequency #91,224 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #91,224
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of pentyl.
Corpus desk
Index EN-amyl · amyl · English
amyl · rank #91,224 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #91,224
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH amendatory
Nearest frequency peer: amendatory (-1 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 “amyl”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Alvord
Alvord
8,780 corpus weight
- ambitiously
ambitiously
8,779 corpus weight
- amendatory
amendatory
8,778 corpus weight
- amyl
amyl
8,777 corpus weight
- Anant
Anant
8,776 corpus weight
- Anelka
Anelka
8,773 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “amyl” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | amyl |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈæ.mɪl/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #91,224 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “amyl” in English
Rare enough to double-check
amyl is uncommon English at frequency #91,224 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈæ.mɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for amyl, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon, “starch”) from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + μύλη (múlē, “mill”). The correct English form is amyl, spelled A-M-Y-L.
Definition
- 1Synonym of pentyl.
- 2Ellipsis of amyl nitrite.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how amyl appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers. . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
Holy fuck! — it’s like a double amyl rush — popping in the cranium like a week-old orgasm.
Etymology
From Latin amylum (“starch”), from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon, “starch”) from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + μύλη (múlē, “mill”).
This word in other languages
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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