archimedean
/ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/adjective
archimedean is spelled A-R-C-H-I-M-E-D-E-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is archimedian: 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. Archimedean is an adjective meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Archimedean”.
How do you spell archimedean?
Archimedean is spelled A-R-C-H-I-M-E-D-E-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for archimedean 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.
What does archimedean mean?
adjective
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Archimedean.
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to Archimedes.
- 2
Having no infinitely large or infinitely small elements.
noun
- 1
A member of The Archimedeans, the mathematical society of the University of Cambridge.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce archimedean?
- UK /ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
- US /ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdi.ən/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-Archimedean.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is archimedean?
Archimedean appears about once in every 14 million words in written English, the 111,684th 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).
Archimedean in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense of or pertaining to Archimedes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | archimédien |
| German | archimedisch |
| Portuguese | arquimédico, arquimediano |
| Spanish | arquimediano |
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 archimedean come from?
From Archimedes + -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).