formamide
noun
formamide is a noun meaning “The amide of formic acid HCO-NH₂ or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-R-M-A-M-I-D-E, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of formamide is formamides.
What does formamide mean?
noun
- 1
The amide of formic acid HCO-NH₂ or any N-substituted derivative; they are used in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of formamide
- formamides plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is formamide?
Formamide appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st 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).
Where does formamide come from?
Blend of formic + amide.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).