quadrupole
noun
quadrupole is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-O-L-E. The wrong spelling people search most is quadrapole: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 10 of all searches for the word. Quadrupole is a noun meaning “A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite…”. The plural of quadrupole is quadrupoles.
How many letters and syllables are in quadrupole?
| Letters | 10: Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-O-L-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 7 million words; the 79,518th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 2; the most searched, quadrapole, 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 quadrupole?
Quadrupole is spelled Q-U-A-D-R-U-P-O-L-E. 2 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 2 in 10 of the searches for quadrupole 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 quadrupole?
Quadrupole appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 79,518th 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 quadrupole
- quadrupoles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does quadrupole mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A distribution of either electric charge or magnetization equivalent to two dipoles that point in opposite directions.
- 2
A magnet with two north poles and two south poles, used to focus a beam of particles.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does quadrupole come from?
From quadru- + pole.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).