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polyacrylamide

noun

polyacrylamide is spelled P-O-L-Y-A-C-R-Y-L-A-M-I-D-E. The wrong spelling people search most is polyacrilamide: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 31 of all searches for the word. Polyacrylamide is a noun meaning “Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc”. The plural of polyacrylamide is polyacrylamides.

How many letters and syllables are in polyacrylamide?

Letters14: P-O-L-Y-A-C-R-Y-L-A-M-I-D-E
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 101,613th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, polyacrilamide, about 10 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 polyacrylamide?

Polyacrylamide is spelled P-O-L-Y-A-C-R-Y-L-A-M-I-D-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for polyacrylamide in either form.

polyacrylamidethe right spelling300 searches a month
polyacrilamidei in place of y10 searches a month
polyacrylimidei in place of a10 searches a month
polyacylamidea missing r10 searches a month

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 polyacrylamide?

Polyacrylamide appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th 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).

Forms of polyacrylamide

  • polyacrylamides plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does polyacrylamide mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Any of a range of cross-linked polymers of acrylamide; used to form soft gels for making contact lenses etc.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does polyacrylamide come from?

From poly- + acrylamide.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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