arsenide
/ˈaɹsəˌnaɪd/
"arsenide" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“arsenide” is uncommon English (frequency #81,122 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,122
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An ion that is an arsenic atom with three extra electrons and charge −3.
Corpus desk
Index EN-arsenide · arsenide · English
arsenide · rank #81,122 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,122
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH argosy
Nearest frequency peer: argosy (-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 “arsenide”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- arbitrarine…
arbitrariness
18,883 corpus weight
- Arezzo
Arezzo
18,882 corpus weight
- argosy
argosy
18,881 corpus weight
- arsenide
arsenide
18,879 corpus weight
- Asan
Asan
18,877 corpus weight
- Ashbourne
Ashbourne
18,876 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “arsenide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | arsenide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈaɹsəˌnaɪd/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #81,122 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “arsenide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
arsenide is uncommon English at frequency #81,122 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈaɹsəˌnaɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for arsenide in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From arsenic + -ide. The correct English form is arsenide, spelled A-R-S-E-N-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1An ion that is an arsenic atom with three extra electrons and charge −3.
- 2A compound with arsenic in oxidation state −3.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how arsenide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Colani (1907b) prepared uranium arsenide and antimonide by methods similar to the one he used for the preparation of phosphide.
Presence of nitrides, argonides, arsenides, and iodides in the crystalline rocks
Etymology
From arsenic + -ide.
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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