amidon

/\a.mi.dɔ̃\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#26,254

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

amidon is aFrenchnoun. It means: Polysaccharide composé de chaînes de molécules de D-glucose nommées amylose et amylopectine qu’on retire des organes de réserves de nombreuses plantes comme le tubercule de la pomme de terre ou les... Pronounced \a.mi.dɔ̃\. Often confused with amin and amon.

Key facts for amidon
PropertyValue
Headwordamidon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.mi.dɔ̃\
Letters6
Frequency rank#26,254
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of amidon in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for amidon is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.mi.dɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,254 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Polysaccharide composé de chaînes de molécules de D-glucose nommées amylose et amylopectine qu’on retire des organes de réserves de nombreuses plantes comme le tubercule de la pomme de terre ou les...".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for amidon, with forms such as "aimdon", "amdion", and "amiddon". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "amin", "amon", "avion", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is amidon, spelled A-M-I-D-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Polysaccharide composé de chaînes de molécules de D-glucose nommées amylose et amylopectine qu’on retire des organes de réserves de nombreuses plantes comme le tubercule de la pomme de terre ou les grains de maïs.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aimdon,amdion,amiddon,amidno,amidonn,amiodn,ammidon,maidon

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for amidon

Misspelling Variants of "amidon"

aimdon6amdion6amiddon7amidno6amidonn7amiodn6ammidon7maidon6
Misspelling Variants of "amidon"

Frequency rank: #26,254 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "amidon"?
"amidon" is spelled A-M-I-D-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.mi.dɔ̃\.
What does "amidon" mean?
As a noun, "amidon" means: Polysaccharide composé de chaînes de molécules de D-glucose nommées amylose et amylopectine qu’on retire des organes de réserves de nombreuses plantes comme le tubercule de la pomme de terre ou les...
What words are commonly confused with "amidon"?
"amidon" is commonly confused with "amin", "amon", "avion". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "amidon"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "amidon" is \a.mi.dɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "amidon" come from?
"amidon" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.