chemistry
/ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/noun
chemistry is spelled C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is chemestry: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Chemistry is a noun meaning “The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes…”. The plural of chemistry is chemistries.
How many letters and syllables are in chemistry?
| Letters | 9: C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, chemestry, about 130 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 chemistry?
Chemistry is spelled C-H-E-M-I-S-T-R-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 70 of the searches for chemistry 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 chemistry?
Chemistry appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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).
How do you pronounce chemistry?
- /ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/
Chemistry has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-chemistry.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of chemistry
- chemistries plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does chemistry mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations in the constitution of their molecules.
- 2
An application of chemical theory and method to a particular substance.
- 3
The chemical properties and reactions of a particular organism, environment etc.
- 4
informalThe mutual attraction between two people; rapport.
The on-screen chemistry between the lead actors led many viewers to believe they were a couple in real life.
- 5
informalproscribedA blood test to measure the amount of various components of the serum (such as electrolytes, creatinine, and glucose).
Diagnosis is presumptive by history and physical examination and is confirmed by chemistries.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate chemistry?
Wiktionary records 3 abbreviations of chemistry: chem, chem., chm.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Chemistry in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense branch of natural science:
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.