imidazole
i·mi·da·zole/ˌɪ.mɪˈdæˌzoʊl/noun
imidazole is spelled I-M-I-D-A-Z-O-L-E, 4 syllables: i·mi·da·zole. The wrong spelling people search most is imidizole: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 32 of all searches for the word. Imidazole is a noun meaning “A heterocyclic organic compound containing two nitrogen atoms separated by a carbon atom in a five-membered…”. The plural of imidazole is imidazoles.
How many letters and syllables are in imidazole?
| Letters | 9: I-M-I-D-A-Z-O-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: i·mi·da·zole |
| In writing | about once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, imidizole, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 imidazole?
Imidazole is spelled I-M-I-D-A-Z-O-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 25 of the searches for imidazole 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 imidazole?
Imidazole appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th 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 imidazole?
- US /ˌɪ.mɪˈdæˌzoʊl/
- US /ˌɪ.məˈdæˌzoʊl/
Imidazole has 4 syllables, split i·mi·da·zole in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-imidazole.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of imidazole
- imidazoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does imidazole mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A heterocyclic organic compound containing two nitrogen atoms separated by a carbon atom in a five-membered ring, called 1,3-diazole in IUPAC nomenclature.
- 2
A group of compounds containing that structure.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Imidazole in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense organic compound:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | imidazol |
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.