azide
/ˈeɪzaɪd/
"azide" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“azide” is uncommon English (frequency #88,080 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,080
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - the univalent N₃ radical or functional group or any ester containing this group
Corpus desk
Index EN-azide · azide · English
azide · rank #88,080 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,080
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Ayotte
Nearest frequency peer: Ayotte (-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 “azide”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- aten
aten
11,929 corpus weight
- audiotape
audiotape
11,928 corpus weight
- auroral
auroral
11,927 corpus weight
- Australopit…
Australopithecus
11,926 corpus weight
- Ayotte
Ayotte
11,923 corpus weight
- azide
azide
11,921 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “azide” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | azide |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈeɪzaɪd/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #88,080 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “azide” in English
Rare enough to double-check
azide is uncommon English at frequency #88,080 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈeɪzaɪd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for azide, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is azide, spelled A-Z-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1the univalent N₃ radical or functional group or any ester containing this group
- 2the N₃⁻ anion or any salt containing this anion (^-N=\overset{+}N=N^-)
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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